“exist as much as light touches, as obscure as shadows hides them”
This series reimagines female portraits beyond the conventions of traditional representation. Each image is a face, a body, a story, yet also a reflection, a trace of presence. Created through darkroom and experimental printing processes, these portraits are more than images. They are signals of existence, states of becoming.
These women are neither mere models nor simple bodies. They are echoes of memory, culture, belonging and the desire for freedom. Every portrait carries the marks of a search for self, an acceptance, or a quiet refusal.
By nature, analog processes make each print singular. Light, chemical reactions and physical interventions pull the visage away from fixed form, turning it into a trace that reshapes itself every time. Sometimes a shadow, sometimes an absence, sometimes the residue of a fading memory.
Images that did not exist before, but appear for a moment. The visage of a woman; sometimes sharp, sometimes incomplete. Present only where the light touches, uncertain wherever the shadow keeps its secrets.