Portraits
My relationship with portraiture began with my relationship with my own image.
For much of my life, being photographed felt uncomfortable. I was shy as a child, confused about my body as I grew older, and went through periods when I rejected most photographs of myself. At the same time, I was deeply drawn to photography, especially artistic representations of the human body. For years, those two things existed separately: fascination with others' work and discomfort with seeing myself.
Self-portraiture changed that.
I began almost accidentally, taking black-and-white photographs on my phone while working through my relationship with my body. What started as an experiment became an ongoing practice of self-discovery. Through hundreds of photographs, I began to understand that no single version of a person is truer than the others. Strength, vulnerability, softness, uncertainty, stillness, movement, and contradiction can all belong to the same whole.
Photography helped me see beauty in a body I had once rejected, not by changing it, but by teaching me to look more closely.
These photographs are the beginning of my portrait work. For now, this gallery holds mostly self-portraits, because that is where my way of seeing people was formed. As I begin photographing others, this space will gradually become a record of different people, different ways of being, and the moments in which something of their presence becomes felt.
I am less interested in constructing an image of who someone should be than in meeting the person who is already there. I stay curious about what is alive in them now, and about the small gestures, expressions, movements, and moments through which something true becomes visible.
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