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In a dimly lit room illuminated by a pair of red lamps, eight-year-old Zeynep waits to see photographs she has taken, now trapped as shadows and silhouettes on a roll of film.
“How big is your curiosity?” asks her mentor, 40-year-old photographer Amar Kilic, as he develops the negatives in a sink.
“As big as the world,” she replies.
Originally from the southeastern province of Mardin, Zeynep is among eight children taking part in a two-month analogue photography workshop for local and migrant youth near Turkiye’s borders with Iraq and Syria.
