Ahmet Sel – Gens de Moscou (2001)

Each of the portraits photographed by Ahmet Sel reveals the hidden face of Moscow, the inner life of its interiors. The back of the Moscow showcase. So many “homes”. A nest of sensitive information and yet without indiscretion, slow photos where the eye wanders for a long time, telling stories, a rare pleasure that master paintings give us. Finally, all these portraits together form a final one: a self-portrait of course, not of the photographer himself, but of his reflection. What his life in Moscow, over the years, has deposited in him, like those old wines which, as they ripen, leave behind a deposit. This is also this album. The slow panorama of a last emotional and determined gaze, the one that we take one last time, before closing the door forever, on a beloved room.

Catleya éditions, 2001. 270 x 270 mm. Hardcover, 120 pages.

First edition. Condition: Very good. Some signs of storage on cover. All texts in French.