This project is still a work in progress


2024—Present

Personal Technologies looks at how personal and societal images shape identity, memory, and perception. I make photographs and work with physical objects chosen for their personal resonance. These objects are not random. They carry traces of cultural and societal influence that have shaped my life. Together with the photographs, they form a system that reflects how external forces settle into the self.

While personal, the work is not self-portraiture in a direct sense. It looks at how external images and systems are absorbed and internalized. The work holds a tension between lived experience and the structures that shape it, showing how both affect how we see ourselves and how we are seen.

The process moves between photography and physical intervention. Images are printed, altered through burning and folding, then rephotographed. Other works bring objects together with photographs to form assemblages. These shifts mirror how memory and identity change over time under pressure from outside forces.

The objects are chosen with intent. They carry cultural weight tied to consumerism, media, conflict, and power. Even when ordinary, they sit inside larger systems of meaning and circulation. In the work, they act as points where those systems become visible through personal handling.

In a world saturated with images and consumption, it considers how much of what is internalized is understood or controlled. The constant flow of images shapes identity in ways that are often unnoticed. It focuses on the tension between external influence and internal formation, and how that tension never settles.

Personal Technologies looks at how images, memories, and objects form identity through accumulation and change. Through collecting, altering, and rephotographing, the work holds identity as something unstable, shaped by both personal history and surrounding systems.

Shortlisted at Open Doors Gallery Photo Prize 2025