// SEFA YAMAK · V.2026CANLI
SEFA YAMAK
The Hardest Winter / 02Where the Years Show
Black-and-white close portrait of an old man in a flat cap smoking a cigarette, deep lines across his face, Kars — fine art portrait by Sefa Yamak, The Hardest Winter series.

Kars, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey · 2015

Where the Years Show

He was finishing a cigarette outside a shop with the shutters already down for the night.

This story imagines, it does not document. It is what the photograph made me feel.

I asked if I could take his picture and he tilted his head, which I took as a yes. There were a lot of winters in that face. The flat cap, the grey stubble, the lines that come from sixty-odd years of squinting into wind and smoke. He didn't smile and I didn't want him to. He looked back at the lens like he had watched plenty of people come through with cameras and would watch plenty more.

— Sefa Yamak, Kars, 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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