女摄影师群像002: Sabiha Çimen

关注到Sabiha Çimen是通过巴黎摄影展里的2022年度获奖书（Paris Photo/Aperture First PhotoBook）。一位三十多岁的土耳其摄影师，拍摄她曾经呆过的可兰经住宿学校里的女孩子们。第一眼就很喜欢她照片的色调和拍摄风格，有那么一点点川内伦子的感觉，或者是禄来相机的色调感。在网上搜到的摄影师本人的照片里，原来她用的是哈苏相机。

她拍的宗教学校里的女孩子，因为全身披黑袍，有一种神秘感和人偶般的匿名感。我还喜欢她拍到的室内场景，有一种塑料的真实感。

一篇访谈里她解释了她自己的成长背景和经历，整个拍摄过程和这个project对于她自己的意义。

“After I finished my thesis in 2014, I wanted to focus more on photography. l studied in a Quran School with my twin sister about 20 years ago during the scarf ban period, and this experience stayed with me always. Between 2013-2016, I re-visited the Quran schools with a digital camera. In 2015, I bought myself a secondhand medium format film camera, a Hasselblad. I discovered that I could easily transform my emotions through it. ”

她还说，这个项目一共三年，胶片照了超过一千张。关于这个项目对她本人的意义，是情感的和寻根式的：

“Through the girls I find myself. Their reality is my reality or vice versa. This project was kind of an inner discovery for me. All the girls somehow became my twin. It was an amazingly nice and silent collaboration, hidden collaboration between me and my subjects. They immediately understood what I wanted. Some of them were very strict and they never wanted to be photographed. I totally respect that. I created an amazing friendship with them. Now, still, with this experience with most of them, I have a good friendship. Their amazing stories are in my life now, and it’s my duty to tell them. Somehow Muslim girls’ life adventure, it’s going on the same stairs, going on the same lines, having the same feelings and the same language. So it’s again my story. When I photograph the girls, they helped me to portray themselves, actually. I was allowed to photograph their real situations. And then I can easily collaborate with them to make an image because l am one of them.”