Kutlu, Photographer, New York

Description

In a black-and-white studio photograph, six figures—four women and two men—are arranged along a horizontal plane. All are fair-skinned adults. The women wear dark, knee-length dresses with ruffles or pleats and low-heeled shoes. The men sport dark suits, ties, hats, and dress shoes. All are lit from the front, with a soft gradient to dark grey beneath them. The subjects are sitting and standing on or near a horizontal rod supported by thin metal poles, arranged slightly off center and parallel to the frame's bottom edge. The background is a uniform, pale grey.