Sabiha Çimen - “Qur’an School students having fun…” Limited Edition Print, Signed (2017, C-Print)
Sabiha Çimen - “Qur’an School students having fun with a pink smoke bomb at a picnic event. Istanbul, Turkey. 2017” Limited Edition Print, Signed (2017, C-Print). Part of a limited square photo series produced by Magnum Photos in collaboration with Aperture.
New condition.
Signed en verso by the photographer
Size: 6 x 6 in
In Turkey, many teenage Muslims are sent by their families to religious schools where they are taught to memorize the Qur’an. In these single-sex, largely residential schools, young girls spend an intensive period of three or four years on their religious education. It was on her return to such a school, with her Hasselblad camera in hand, that Sabiha Çimen discovered her artistic voice. Her most significant project to date, ‘Hafiz: Guardians of the Qur’an’, captures students in attendance at several girls-only Qur’an schools throughout Turkey, weaving its emotional narrative through collected vignettes of the daydreams, trivialities, quiet rebellions and melodramas of youth.
Sabiha Çimen was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1986. She is a self-taught photographer, focusing on Islamic culture, portraiture and still life.Working with nostalgia in her images, and drawing on psychological connections with the subjects of her photos to create her visual “autobiography”, Çimen documents a rarely-seen world exploring the dreams and adventures of young Muslim women in Turkey.
Sabiha Çimen - “Qur’an School students having fun with a pink smoke bomb at a picnic event. Istanbul, Turkey. 2017” Limited Edition Print, Signed (2017, C-Print). Part of a limited square photo series produced by Magnum Photos in collaboration with Aperture.
New condition.
Signed en verso by the photographer
Size: 6 x 6 in
In Turkey, many teenage Muslims are sent by their families to religious schools where they are taught to memorize the Qur’an. In these single-sex, largely residential schools, young girls spend an intensive period of three or four years on their religious education. It was on her return to such a school, with her Hasselblad camera in hand, that Sabiha Çimen discovered her artistic voice. Her most significant project to date, ‘Hafiz: Guardians of the Qur’an’, captures students in attendance at several girls-only Qur’an schools throughout Turkey, weaving its emotional narrative through collected vignettes of the daydreams, trivialities, quiet rebellions and melodramas of youth.
Sabiha Çimen was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1986. She is a self-taught photographer, focusing on Islamic culture, portraiture and still life.Working with nostalgia in her images, and drawing on psychological connections with the subjects of her photos to create her visual “autobiography”, Çimen documents a rarely-seen world exploring the dreams and adventures of young Muslim women in Turkey.
Sabiha Çimen - “Qur’an School students having fun with a pink smoke bomb at a picnic event. Istanbul, Turkey. 2017” Limited Edition Print, Signed (2017, C-Print). Part of a limited square photo series produced by Magnum Photos in collaboration with Aperture.
New condition.
Signed en verso by the photographer
Size: 6 x 6 in
In Turkey, many teenage Muslims are sent by their families to religious schools where they are taught to memorize the Qur’an. In these single-sex, largely residential schools, young girls spend an intensive period of three or four years on their religious education. It was on her return to such a school, with her Hasselblad camera in hand, that Sabiha Çimen discovered her artistic voice. Her most significant project to date, ‘Hafiz: Guardians of the Qur’an’, captures students in attendance at several girls-only Qur’an schools throughout Turkey, weaving its emotional narrative through collected vignettes of the daydreams, trivialities, quiet rebellions and melodramas of youth.
Sabiha Çimen was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1986. She is a self-taught photographer, focusing on Islamic culture, portraiture and still life.Working with nostalgia in her images, and drawing on psychological connections with the subjects of her photos to create her visual “autobiography”, Çimen documents a rarely-seen world exploring the dreams and adventures of young Muslim women in Turkey.
