old soul...

i've been hard at work preparing a grant proposal these last few days... i've taken a few trips to turkey over the last couple of years to document the kurds, and am looking for some funding to go back... more on that later, but i've been relooking through all of my photographs taken there and came across this portrait of a young kurdish girl that i found in diyarbakir. i'm not sure why but i just love this photo. her intense expression, red headband, and gorgeous eyes are hard to look away from... but i feel like it's more what they eyes are saying... what they've seen. these are the eyes of an old soul... and they just happen to be on a very young girl...