Kars, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey · 2017
What She's Seen
She put her chin in her hand and looked at me, and I more or less stopped working after the first frame.
This story imagines, it does not document. It is what the photograph made me feel.
There was nothing to fix. Her scarf was the printed kind the older women wear here, knotted close against the cold, and the hand under her chin had clearly done a long life of work. We didn't share much language. I pointed at the camera, she gave a small nod, and then she just held still and let me look. The eyes did the rest.
— Sefa Yamak, eastern Anatolia, winter. The Hardest Winter series.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm · Signed & numbered on verso · Certificate of Authenticity included
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