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In Turkey, many Muslim teenagers are sent by their families to religious schools where they learn to memorize the Quran. In these single-sex boarding schools, which range in size from 50 to 600 students, the young people spend an intensive three- or four-year period studying religion.
It was upon returning to such a school, a Hasselblad camera in hand, that Sabiha Çimen discovered her artistic voice.
Titled Hafiz: Guardians of the Quran, Sabiha Çimen’s project—her most significant to date—captures students attending several girls-only Quranic schools across Turkey, weaving her emotional narrative through vignettes drawn from daydreams, trivialities, quiet rebellions, and the melodramas of youth; color photographs.
Red Hook Editions, 2023
140 pages
20 x 27 cm
ISBN 978-1-7376814-2-7
In Turkey, many Muslim teenagers are sent by their families to religious schools where they learn to memorize the Quran. In these single-sex boarding schools, which range in size from 50 to 600 students, the young people spend an intensive three- or four-year period studying religion.
It was upon returning to such a school, a Hasselblad camera in hand, that Sabiha Çimen discovered her artistic voice.
Titled Hafiz: Guardians of the Quran, Sabiha Çimen’s project—her most significant to date—captures students attending several girls-only Quranic schools across Turkey, weaving her emotional narrative through vignettes drawn from daydreams, trivialities, quiet rebellions, and the melodramas of youth; color photographs.
Red Hook Editions, 2023
140 pages
20 x 27 cm
ISBN 978-1-7376814-2-7
