The taste of sun on skin

A work combining documentary images and staged self-portraits to explore complex family dynamics. While rooted in personal experience, it addresses universal themes of belonging and distance, care and conflict, identity, and how family relationships shape

The photographic project “The Taste of Sun on Skin” explores complex family dynamics through a combination of staged scenes and documentary photographs, the work unfolds as a layered portrait of my family, situated between observation and lived experience. A central element of the project is a series of self-portraits in which I position myself as an active part of the family system, reflecting on my own presence, vulnerability, and role within it.

The photographs are accompanied by written texts that are integral to the project. These texts narrate memories, thoughts, and fragments of lived experience, offering context and emotional depth that cannot always be expressed visually. They expand the images into a broader narrative space, allowing contradictions, silences, and ambiguities to surface.

Although rooted in a personal family history, the project addresses themes that are widely shared: belonging and distance, care and conflict, identity, and the ways in which family relationships shape who we become. By intertwining image and text, the work invites viewers to recognize elements of their own familial experiences and to reflect on the universal structures that underlie intimate relationships.