self-portrait
Photography + Videography collexions
eStranged
eStranged is a self-portrait photography series that confronts the feelings of being estranged from the people and places I used to call home.
In each photo, I bring together pieces from both my mother and father’s homes, imagining what our homes would look like if they were still together today. From photo albums to paintings by loved ones, each piece is layered with meaning and pieces of past lives. I place myself at the center of the frame, grappling with my feelings of being out of place – bare and left out in the cold – finding shelter in my own fantasies of home.
/ Montreal
Tranxitions
An ongoing project that explores identity, gaze, visibility and feelings of instability through long-exposure and self-portrait photography. I examine my conflicting position of being hypervisible while feeling invisible as an Afro-Asian woman living in a predominantly white society.
/ Canada
still i rise
Dedicated to my grandmother and late grandfather, who have always stood as tall as baobabs.
Self-portrait photographed at Allée des Baobabs, Madagascar, amongst 800 year old baobab trees.
/ Madagascar
hung up
This series imagines the aftermath of a call that leaves a woman in distress. Viewers are left to wonder about the news she received, yet can relate to the pain that is perceived. Channeling my own feelings of pain, disconnect and heartbreak.
/ Montreal
from above
— Experimenting with aerial self-portraits + patterns in nature.
I like the idea of playing with aerial self-portraits because they counter our notion of what self-portraiture is.
Self-portraiture is often figurative and focused on the subject. When pictured from a drone, the figure gets lost. The environment, and the self in relation to it, become the focus.
I find it humbling; it reminds me of how our environments shape our perspectives and how we experience the world. It reminds me of the beauty that surrounds us, and that we have destroyed. And ultimately, how we are all just specks of stardust.
/ Madagascar
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/ Montreal
dinner for 1
/ Montreal
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