Personal Projects| Exploring Stories Through Photography

A woman with face paint and a headscarf, wearing a green dress and a necklace, sitting at a table with tarot cards, some floating in the air and some on the table.
A mime artist with white face paint, wearing a black bowler hat, striped shirt, and white gloves, resting her chin on her hand, with pink and blue dominoes arranged in a smile on a table.
Person dressed as a mime sitting on a yellow chair, holding a vintage green rotary phone, with another rotary phone on the floor beside them, against a plain background.
A mime artist with white face paint, black teardrop makeup, pink lipstick, and daisy flower hair accessories, sitting at a table with a meat cleaver in hand and a guillotine model, dressed in a floral dress and white gloves, against a green backgroun
A woman with face makeup resembling a mime or clown, wearing a black hat with a pink flower, black dress with textured fabric, and a strap over her shoulder, against a plain blue background.
A mime artist with white face paint, black tears, and pink lips holding out her hand, which supports a small birdcage with a woman dressed as a mime inside, wearing a striped shirt and blue gloves, with a flower on her head.
A person with clown makeup, wearing a black hat and floral shirt, sitting on a yellow chair in front of a black background. There are crumpled tissues, a wine glass, a pen, and blank paper on the floor.
A mime artist with face paint, wearing a black hat and gloves, and a flower in her hair, looks at a shadow puppet of a bird on the wall.
A woman dressed as a mime or clown, holding a microphone, with white face paint, black hat, and red roses in her hair, standing in front of a dark curtain with red spheres hanging in the background.
Woman in Halloween costume with skeletal makeup, black hooded cloak, flower crown, holding a lit red candle, against a dark background.

Portraits of Fear & Becoming

Portraits of Fear & Becoming is a series of self-portraits created as a deeply personal exploration of my inner world. This project began as an exercise to understand myself better, to analyse the triggers, thoughts, and fears that disrupt my daily life, and to examine why I sometimes hesitate, feel paralysed, or avoid certain experiences. Themes such as rejection, failure, death, ageing, physical pain, heartbreak, and uncertainty about the future became central to this exploration. Through this series, I confronted these fears, learning to accept them, laugh at them, and even transform them into visual narratives.

The creative process was intentionally theatrical and experimental. I used the camera and flashes as tools of self-investigation, combined with exaggerated, uncomfortable makeup to embody the tension and vulnerability I was feeling. Drawing inspiration from iconic artists such as Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman, I adopted the persona of a mime, a playful alter ego that allowed me to step outside myself and observe my emotions from a different perspective. This approach enabled me to experiment with character, expression, and narrative while creating a visual language that is at once humorous, whimsical, and deeply personal.

Each portrait was carefully crafted with colourful backgrounds, props, and theatrical gestures to transform fear into something tangible and observable. By exaggerating my anxieties and embodying them in visual form, I could both distance myself from them and engage with them more consciously. The intention behind these images is to remind myself to meet life as it is, without avoiding discomfort. To embrace both joy and pain equally. To feel fully, to be fully, and to exist authentically.

This series is more than self-portraiture, it is an ongoing journey of self-discovery, artistic experimentation, and emotional growth. Through these images, I explore the universal tension between fear and courage, vulnerability and playfulness, ultimately capturing the process of becoming in its most honest and creative form.