UNDERSTANDING MY FEMININE SELF
2015 - Ongoing
When I began Understanding My Feminine Self in 2015, it was not yet a formal project but a way to gaze intimately at myself and what I was experiencing. Like many young women, I struggled with severe anxiety, doubt, and shame. I began asking why, where it came from, and how I might heal. Photography entered my life at the same time, becoming a tool for exploration and self-understanding.
This project is not an attempt to define femininity, but meditate on how identity is learned, performed, and negotiated through conscious and unconscious acts. Using myself as a subject—alongside my mother, sister, and intimate partners—I trace connections from my past to my present, investigating my relationship to gender, sexuality, and performance. Through documentary and conceptual photographs, I chart my internal landscape, witnessing moments of vulnerability, shame, eroticism, desire, power, and resistance.
Evolving as I do, this project illuminates the contours of my female experience and how I continue to inhabit, embody, and understand my identity.