Untitled Collection
SELF is a deeply personal series of self-portraits that confronts the reality of battaling mental health, addiction, and the fractured identity they create. Through photography, I dissect the chaos of self-destruction, the weight of isolation, and the eventual emergence of hope during recovery.
For years, my emotions defied language. Photography became my voice—a way to claw meaning from the intangible. By distorting light, shadow, and time (through long exposures and layered compositions), I externalize the disorientation of addiction: the way it fractures reality, blurs self-perception, and drowns clarity. Each image is a battle cry or a whisper of surrender, mapping my journey from collapse to tentative rebirth.
The series oscillates between chaos and quiet. Faces dissolve into shadow or multiply into spectral doubles, mirroring the cacophony of inner voices—shame, rage, numbness.recognition. These are not just images; they’re evidence of survival.
SELF is my attempt to weaponize vulnerability. It’s a lifeline thrown to others lost in similar places, and a challenge to stigma: What if pain doesn’t need words to be seen? This project is not closure, but a testament to the ongoing battle—and the power of art to turn wounds into maps.