Kars, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey · 2015
What the Ice Gives
The frozen lake still gives up fish in the worst of the cold, and he had a big one slung over his shoulder.
This story imagines, it does not document. It is what the photograph made me feel.
He carried it like it was both a trophy and an ordinary day's work, which it probably was. A wool cap, a few days of beard, a turtleneck under a worn jacket. He glanced at the camera and kept walking, didn't break stride for me. The cold really gets the credit here. It had frozen the fish stiff enough to carry like a plank.
— Sefa Yamak, Kars, 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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