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Sweet Nothings,<\/strong> 2007<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

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I had been living and working in the region for almost a decade, and in Turkey itself for more than four years. I was drawn by ideas of borders and belonging. One enduring image that had always struck me wherever I travelled was the schoolgirls in their little blue dresses, the same in every town, city or village.
\nThese dresses with their lace collars and sweet messages embroidered on the bodices, were the symbol of the Turkish state, but the girls who wore them were simply little girls. In the borderlands of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Armenia the dresses were still the same. The land is harsh and unforgiving, the mountains are high and cold. Life is difficult here, and the lives of the small girls who inhabit it is just as harsh.
\nI wanted to make a series of portraits of these girls on the borderlands.
\nKnowing their status I wanted to give a space for the girls to have a moment of importance in front of a camera.
\nI decided to use a slower, formal way of making the pictures to create this space. Every frame was made at the same distance to ensure a kind of equality to each girl.
\nI hoped symbol of the uniform, the distance in repetition, and the austerity of the landscape would represent one thing, but I also hoped more than anything, in the expressions of the girls faces, to draw attention to the idea of these young girls poised at the moment \u201cjust before\u201d. The moment where possibility lies, a time where the presentation of self-teeters into consciousness.
\nI asked the group of girls to come forward with their chosen friends or with their sisters. Occasionally they come forward alone. Sometimes I asked to make another frame of an individual girl.
\nThe girls were a mix of emotions about this event, this small moment of theatre in front of them. They were excited, curious and a little nervous all at the same time.
\nMany things touched me during the making of these images. I was touched by the gravity in their demeanor at the moment in front of the camera, their fragility, their simplicity, their grace, their closeness to one another, but most of all I was struck by their complete lack of posturing.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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