Schaarbeek, 2008


info about this picture

portrait of a turkish lady. i saw her sitting at those doorsteps and i just liked the way she was sitting there and enjoying the good weather. so i wanted to ask her if i could take her picture, but she didn't speak much french. i though she'd never give me permission, but in the end she understood what i wanted to do(yay for body language!) and i could take some pictures


background info about the Schaarbeek.DOC series

i made this picture for a school assignment. we had to make a portrait series about people living in Schaarbeek. Schaarbeek was divided into zones and everybody got a zone in which he had to make portraits. Lucky as i always am *cough*, i got the zone with the red light district and Turkey(as i often call it.. it feels as if you walk somewhere on the streets in Turkey; so many typical turkish stores, turkish people and every nationality other than belgian. i swear.. you'll have a hard time to find someone with the belgian nationality over there. not that i really care about that, but it's just so much harder to convince them to have their picture taken. they either don't trust you or they only speak turkish, bulgarian, armenian,...).
it wasn't easy to find four people, but i succeeded in the end

all of my pictures even got selected for the Schaarbeek.DOC exposition.
some images: (not mine!)

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nikon fm2n, nikkor 28/2.8, tri-x, print scan(w/ nikon d300)