with her ii: corpus
My relationship with my own body has always been complicated. That tension is where Corpus began.
In my late twenties I wanted to speak about something I kept seeing around me. The ways women carry their bodies, the private struggles that rarely get named out loud. Body dysmorphia, sexuality, identity, chronic illness. The things that live just beneath the surface of how we present ourselves.
I photographed fourteen women, each in her own domestic space. The sessions became something closer to photo therapy than photography. It often felt more important to talk and the camera came second. I limited myself to two rolls of 120 film per person, one colour and one black and white. Not as a constraint for its own sake but as a commitment to presence. To slowness. To the idea that each frame carries weight because it cannot be taken again.
Afterwards each participant received a selection of images and was invited to respond in writing. The texts came back as letters, poems, apologies. In some cases no text at all.
Those silences are part of the work too.
Corpus was originally conceived as a photobook. Returning to it years later it felt unfinished, not in the images but in the voices. The project wants to grow.
The selection shown here is part of a wider series of fourteen portraits. The full photobook dummy is available to view on request.
In my late twenties I wanted to speak about something I kept seeing around me. The ways women carry their bodies, the private struggles that rarely get named out loud. Body dysmorphia, sexuality, identity, chronic illness. The things that live just beneath the surface of how we present ourselves.
I photographed fourteen women, each in her own domestic space. The sessions became something closer to photo therapy than photography. It often felt more important to talk and the camera came second. I limited myself to two rolls of 120 film per person, one colour and one black and white. Not as a constraint for its own sake but as a commitment to presence. To slowness. To the idea that each frame carries weight because it cannot be taken again.
Afterwards each participant received a selection of images and was invited to respond in writing. The texts came back as letters, poems, apologies. In some cases no text at all.
Those silences are part of the work too.
Corpus was originally conceived as a photobook. Returning to it years later it felt unfinished, not in the images but in the voices. The project wants to grow.
The selection shown here is part of a wider series of fourteen portraits. The full photobook dummy is available to view on request.