STILL, LIFE - 2015

After the sudden death of my fiancé in 2012, I began to I examine my inner world of grief through self-portraiture. Each week for a year, I captured images and wrote personal essays to further explore the thoughts and emotions that came up as I healed.

This project has culminated into a powerful collection of 40 works depicting a distinctly poetic and otherworldly beauty from one of the darkest and most painful of life’s experiences. It left me with a deep and lasting healing and has gone on to create a conversation on grief and death for many.

“Still, Life” has led me to an interest in how we cope with change, which includes both a loss of something that was and an entering into something new - a still beautiful life. I continue to explore this theme in many different ways, but it is this series that always speaks of it most powerfully to me.

Below is the entire series of photographs and original essays.