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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Forty-Four: Photographing human response – gesture, body language, and expressions > Visitors, Suleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009
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24-OCT-2009

Visitors, Suleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009

Three Muslim women share a bench in the park that runs alongside of Istanbul’s most important mosque. Their gestures reflect their feelings at the moment. The woman at left seems tired. The woman shrouded in black looks intensely at the camera, her gaze intensified by the fact that much of her face is veiled. And the woman at right adjusts her head covering at they wait their turn to enter the mosque. By relating multiple gestures to each other, I strengthen the image’s message: although sharing a common experience, each person responds in their own way.

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Phil Douglis22-Nov-2009 21:28
Thanks, Claudia, for pointing out the three senses involve in this image -- you add context that puts the three gestures into a relationship I had not considered before.
BleuEvanescence22-Nov-2009 07:05
One does not see, one does not speak and the other does not hear...
But your image speaks volume, as always.
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