https://soulcamera.org Soul Camera Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:17:32 +0000 https://soulcamera.org en https://soulcamera.org/Patient Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:25:18 +0000 Soul Camera https://soulcamera.org/Patient Patient2018–2024 · Artist book <img width="1072" height="920" width_o="1072" height_o="920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95993fffcdb5b4c843b3cdb8ec68f12fe8fcc1f24176542d30988d0b5c9eb6d9/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-18.57.45.png" data-mid="252347204" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95993fffcdb5b4c843b3cdb8ec68f12fe8fcc1f24176542d30988d0b5c9eb6d9/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-18.57.45.png" /> Patient reflects on my emotional and challenging journey following a brain tumour diagnosis delivered by post in 2018. The work traces my experience through to 2024, exploring the prolonged waiting and uncertainty that followed, and the psychological impact of navigating illness and the healthcare system. The camera became a way into my soul, giving a visual voice to experiences I could not always put into words. Fear, vulnerability, loss of control and the strange suspension of time that comes with being a patient sit alongside resilience and hope. ‘Patient’ gradually emerges not simply as a medical label, but as a newfound identity. <img width="1204" height="826" width_o="1204" height_o="826" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/750f0aa55bb7e82d3ba2e886c9e7abced3f4c792a5a12095447d9173b14b8499/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-18.58.34.png" data-mid="252347207" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/750f0aa55bb7e82d3ba2e886c9e7abced3f4c792a5a12095447d9173b14b8499/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-18.58.34.png" /> <img width="1910" height="1020" width_o="1910" height_o="1020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/facb58f52d205e95da514539ab406b38130f6c5ff34cf860aa9198d982334720/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-18.58.50.png" data-mid="252347208" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/facb58f52d205e95da514539ab406b38130f6c5ff34cf860aa9198d982334720/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-18.58.50.png" /> Following the operation, I lost sight in my right eye, and many of the photographs were shaped by this newly reduced vision. I used different cameras depending on the context, from spontaneous mobile phone photographs to the slow, deliberate process of working with a Mamiya RB67 medium-format film camera. <img width="1597" height="1259" width_o="1597" height_o="1259" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77b0ab7646b6b5c9a99f3187bebcd4df49d32cf924c9f102a4dba625695c5ae5/7mine.jpeg" data-mid="252348105" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77b0ab7646b6b5c9a99f3187bebcd4df49d32cf924c9f102a4dba625695c5ae5/7mine.jpeg" /> After my first surgery, I went looking for a landscape that reflected how I felt. I found it in a former mining area, a landscape marked by what had happened to it.&nbsp;Photographing it with the Mamiya was a slow process, echoing the healing process. <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcefa89be74ee9ca6687e0d2726240316cc920471db46f0a94e4b715c0869103/8.jpeg" data-mid="252347300" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcefa89be74ee9ca6687e0d2726240316cc920471db46f0a94e4b715c0869103/8.jpeg" /> <img width="1176" height="910" width_o="1176" height_o="910" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4eb5d1b1d5697bee6bfb81ffa5043fa5b2176bead3179b86c099cee8fe9701bd/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-18.59.19.png" data-mid="252347210" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4eb5d1b1d5697bee6bfb81ffa5043fa5b2176bead3179b86c099cee8fe9701bd/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-18.59.19.png" /> Holding It Together 2024 · Six-hour performance, recorded on video <img width="2176" height="1674" width_o="2176" height_o="1674" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83b7e21ee8bbbefd34a02e9fc7a83328f20d48137de19c0bef2d78fa9d2d29db/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-20.16.01.png" data-mid="252347252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83b7e21ee8bbbefd34a02e9fc7a83328f20d48137de19c0bef2d78fa9d2d29db/Screenshot-2026-09-20-at-20.16.01.png" /> Screenshots from Holding It Together, a six-hour performance exploring the endurance required to live through severe illness. The work was influenced by Marina Abramović and her use of duration, physical presence and vulnerability in performance. https://soulcamera.org/Sympathy-with-Small-Things-When-Time-Stops Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:25:17 +0000 Soul Camera https://soulcamera.org/Sympathy-with-Small-Things-When-Time-Stops Sympathy with Small Things When Time Stops2020 · Artist book <img width="1145" height="1374" width_o="1145" height_o="1374" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2babbbe221084943507106d9b0092ce06208af72c9f521000b417a56f02e3b4/Sympathy_with_Small_Things_book_cover.jpeg" data-mid="252646925" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2babbbe221084943507106d9b0092ce06208af72c9f521000b417a56f02e3b4/Sympathy_with_Small_Things_book_cover.jpeg" /> Sympathy with Small Things When Time Stops was made during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Shortly before lockdown, I found out I was pregnant. A month later, I learned I had experienced a missed miscarriage. It had passed silently. <img width="5175" height="3475" width_o="5175" height_o="3475" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/739fca47030ded0f96dfc34e5a41faa565f5ac551e3d6c2bac245e3bf9882dd9/Sympathy-with-small-things-when-time-stops_Part7.jpg" data-mid="120420986" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/739fca47030ded0f96dfc34e5a41faa565f5ac551e3d6c2bac245e3bf9882dd9/Sympathy-with-small-things-when-time-stops_Part7.jpg" /> Grief unfolded within the strange stillness of lockdown. Photography had helped me through a difficult experience before, so I returned to it, needing somewhere for the pain to go. I began photographing at home and on my once-daily walks, often along the nearby canal. <img width="5175" height="3475" width_o="5175" height_o="3475" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96c164bbe4d629220f0b09b085e102ed35d70e6ef6dfae4a1853192ae78470c6/Sympathy-with-small-things-when-time-stops_Part20.jpg" data-mid="120421001" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96c164bbe4d629220f0b09b085e102ed35d70e6ef6dfae4a1853192ae78470c6/Sympathy-with-small-things-when-time-stops_Part20.jpg" /> <img width="5175" height="3475" width_o="5175" height_o="3475" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6fb7f8d3c674ad374d0c90b0754546662e76844c7569214d5682ab9d7b53d4e/Sympathy-with-small-things-when-time-stops_Part3.jpg" data-mid="120420982" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6fb7f8d3c674ad374d0c90b0754546662e76844c7569214d5682ab9d7b53d4e/Sympathy-with-small-things-when-time-stops_Part3.jpg" /> My attention turned to small things: shifting light, water, plants, and fleeting encounters that somehow seemed to hold what I was feeling. Raindrops met tears, while moments of sunshine briefly lifted the darkness. Over time, photographing these small things helped me stay with the loss and eventually begin to let go. https://soulcamera.org/A-Bleached-Legacy Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:25:19 +0000 Soul Camera https://soulcamera.org/A-Bleached-Legacy A Bleached Legacy2018 · Typology <img width="1713" height="1713" width_o="1713" height_o="1713" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ada8c9fa497ba22194a72c9833e7b3434090b47acd37563b5bc454de1ac80260/ABleachedLegacy-copy-1.jpg" data-mid="122332307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ada8c9fa497ba22194a72c9833e7b3434090b47acd37563b5bc454de1ac80260/ABleachedLegacy-copy-1.jpg" /> A Bleached Legacy was inspired by a close friend's experience of colourism within her family and community. During adolescence, she was pressured to use skin-bleaching products because her darker skin did not conform to the beauty ideals within parts of her family and community. She later began challenging these ideals and created a support platform for others affected by colourism. She is also one of the women photographed in the series. The work draws on the history of the Brown Paper Bag Test, a practice associated with colour-based exclusion within Black communities in the United States, in which skin tone was compared with the colour of a brown paper bag. Accounts of the practice describe lighter skin as granting access to social spaces and opportunities from which darker-skinned people could be excluded. <img width="2362" height="2362" width_o="2362" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b62ca94434b762eb3bb4fca9f01f6b9fb6e0ce8756be583294ef9fc97ca0ade/PaperBag_2-1.jpg" data-mid="122332306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b62ca94434b762eb3bb4fca9f01f6b9fb6e0ce8756be583294ef9fc97ca0ade/PaperBag_2-1.jpg" /> In the photographs, the women's faces are obscured by standardised brown paper bags. Across the series, however, it is the bags rather than the women that become increasingly bleached. The transformation of the paper reflects the pressure to alter darker skin in pursuit of an imposed ideal of beauty, and the psychological and physical harm this can cause. https://soulcamera.org/Shadowland Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:25:19 +0000 Soul Camera https://soulcamera.org/Shadowland Shadowland2018 · Photographic series <img width="768" height="1152" width_o="768" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35bdb3517d7bbf2b589c7b8c800bcba33ede27b94bf956b0dddb02513eb1a23c/19798623_7101aff74d1c7cb502c67138ea77ca14_wm.jpg" data-mid="120443255" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/35bdb3517d7bbf2b589c7b8c800bcba33ede27b94bf956b0dddb02513eb1a23c/19798623_7101aff74d1c7cb502c67138ea77ca14_wm.jpg" /> Shadowland is a series of photographs made in Hungary in the lead-up to the 2018 national election. The work responds to the controversy surrounding EU-funded street-lighting projects carried out by Elios, a company formerly co-owned by then Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s son-in-law, István Tiborcz. The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) investigated the projects over suspected irregularities involving public procurement and conflicts of interest. The photographs portray ordinary Hungarians willing to speak up and criticise the government. I photographed them beneath some of the actual Elios street lights at the centre of the scandal. The poor illumination of the lights, itself part of the public criticism surrounding the projects, left much of the surrounding space in darkness. I used these limited pools of light to illuminate the people who were speaking out. Darkness became both the setting and the visual language of Shadowland, reflecting what remained hidden. <img width="1280" height="854" width_o="1280" height_o="854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ba1159e0412e2b64477ca7b633dbeb17aadfadda2626aa230eae76604b683fa/19798621_67f2303ad6ce0895bef1b7d9aec1b1ac_wm.jpg" data-mid="120443262" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ba1159e0412e2b64477ca7b633dbeb17aadfadda2626aa230eae76604b683fa/19798621_67f2303ad6ce0895bef1b7d9aec1b1ac_wm.jpg" /> <img width="768" height="1152" width_o="768" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87c8fb57c4896f35ee61885ffd8ab358373d12fe8e23e6eda3ebbf252323119a/19798631_9c0bc2c538a13937b962a59e2f415e99_wm.jpg" data-mid="120443260" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/87c8fb57c4896f35ee61885ffd8ab358373d12fe8e23e6eda3ebbf252323119a/19798631_9c0bc2c538a13937b962a59e2f415e99_wm.jpg" /> Hungarian news site Index.hu published Shadowland in 2018. Following major changes at Index in 2020, much of its editorial staff left the publication. Many of the former journalists went on to establish the independent news platform Telex. View the original Shadowland feature on Index.hu https://soulcamera.org/Projects Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:25:17 +0000 Soul Camera https://soulcamera.org/Projects soul camera Soul Camera emerged after a life-changing diagnosis arrived in a letter. I searched for answers, unsure about my future. I turned to my camera, driven by a wish to leave a visual trace of having been here. Photography also became a way to process what I was going through and led me to my purpose: care through visual reflection. My practice explores the soul through illness, grief, identity and belonging, and how our experiences shape the way we see the world. 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