Collected Item: “my love, our garden, late fall”
Your Name
Didem Yavuzyigit
Your Pronouns
she/her
Instagram handle, if any
didem.dee
Work Title
my love, our garden, late fall
Work Year (We are not accepting images older than 5 years)
2025
[Image Rights] Do you confirm that you hold the rights to this image?
Yes
[Eligibility] The Curve Photo Contest proudly centers and uplifts people who identify as lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer women and nonbinary people. Please share how you self-identify, using language that feels most accurate to you. Feel free to include all intersections of your identity. (Examples: lesbian, trans person of color, Latinx queer woman, radical faery, butch, etc.)
lesbian
[Artist Statement] Tell us more about your photo by sharing a brief artist statement OR answering this prompt: "This is what being ______ means to me..." (Max. 100 words)
I am not an artist, simply a woman in love obsessed with documenting my girlfriend and quiet little life in a mountain village in the Turkish Riviera. We left our lives in the city to shelter ourselves from the ever-growing anti-LGBT+ propaganda of the government, building an isolated yet fulfilling life in a stone cottage with a garden which we share with our dog Bikini, and some 20 cats- the ones that came with us, and the village ones that acquired a taste for dry food.
[Visual Description] Describe your photo so we can provide alt-text. Example: "Two women holding hands and smiling as they walk in a pride parade, surrounded by rainbow flags."
A woman is sitting in a bamboo chair with a book on her lap, her back against a garden, as she smiles in mid-sentence looking away from the camera.
[Agreement] In the event that you win the 2026 Curve Photo Contest, do you consent to having your photograph printed for the sole purpose of displaying at The Curve Foundation's one-day event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) during Lesbian Visibility Week? The Curve Foundation will cover printing costs, but will not cover costs for mailing the print after the event ends.
Yes
[Agreement] Do you consent to The Curve Foundation storing, sharing, and using this image and its description as we deem appropriate, including disseminating on our social media, website, and Curve Archive and Curve Quarterly?
Yes
[Agreement] By checking 'I understand' below, I acknowledge that this contest upholds values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I confirm that my submission does not contain anti-LGBTQ+ or other discriminatory, hateful, or exclusionary content.
I understand