i’m still here

I approach photography as an artist, gathering traces of memory, intimacy and vulnerability. Warm, sepia tones hold tenderness and unease together: the softness we carry, and the sharp edges we grow when life presses against our skin.

This series is about being present and not seen. The figures are faint, distant or half-dissolved, and some are looking out from something else, like a discarded object. The images are light and nearly transparent on purpose. I am an artist who uses the camera to think, not a photographer, and these pictures record a feeling I have lived on my skin, of being overlooked until you almost disappear, and of refusing to. “I am an unreality no more than an abstract nebula of nothingness… an incorporeal entity known in terms of logic only as a woman “