Rize, Turkey · 2018
After the Herd
When the goats had gone over the rise he came back to me and stood still for a proper portrait.
This story imagines, it does not document. It is what the photograph made me feel.
He rested both hands on his stick and met the lens straight on, a boy in dark clothes against a hill that is almost all white. The fog was close behind him and the grass was wet under his shoes. I thanked him, and that was the last frame before he climbed after his animals.
— Sefa Yamak, Rize. Anatolia series.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm · Signed & numbered on verso · Certificate of Authenticity included
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