In August 2022, I received the final dose of the chemotherapy following my breast cancer diagnosis six months earlier. The immediate threat of the cancer was gone, but so were the clear guidelines and structure that the chemo had provided. Feeling a need for stability and meaning, I decided to document my recovery process.
Every fortnight, I made a self-portrait in my improvised home studio. This ritual gave me energy, courage and hope. The repetitive act of photographing myself brought a sense of regularity and comfort. The conceptual approach – each of the 32 photographs is consistently composed in the same way – makes it seem like a uniform series, but as you browse through the images, subtle changes begin to emerge. In this way, the viewer becomes a witness to a gradual transformation, and a companion on the road to recovery. The photographic images freeze real moments, simultaneously and instantly relegating them to the past, hopefully for good.
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