Nedim’s Refusal

• Prize
  Silver in Portfolio/Fine Art
• Photographer
  Omer Izgec
• Technical Info
  Canon R6, Sigma 50 mm
• Photo Date
  03/2025

Inspired by an Anatolian legend in which boys come of age by slaughtering wolf cubs — a brutal covenant with their ancestors — this work does not glorify the tradition. Instead, it asks: What if one refuses? Nedim, the boy in question, turns his back on the village ritual and vanishes into the forest. This series captures the moments just before and after that decision — when myth ceases to be story and becomes skin. This series demands we revisit an older kind of narrative. One rooted in ritual, exile, and transformation.