// SEFA YAMAK · V.2026CANLI
SEFA YAMAK
The Hardest Winter / 03What She's Seen
An elderly woman in a floral headscarf rests her chin on a worked hand, soulful eyes, eastern Anatolia — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, The Hardest Winter series.

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

Edition
Edition of 25 · signed & numbered
Paper
Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm
Process
Archival pigment print
Sizes
30×40 cm · 50×60 cm · 60×80 cm · 80×100 cm
Certificate
Signed certificate of authenticity
Production
Produced to order
Price
On request
Signed & numberedCertificate of authenticityShips worldwide

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