As I take photos, I try to capture the emotion of the scene. I am the one who clicks the shutter, but how is it my art?  I’m an artist, but my work doesn’t always reflect who I think I am. What makes someone who they are? What is the self?

In my self-portrait series In Search for the self, I bring photography to the other side: a deeper look into myself as a person, artist, and thinker. My medium allows you to see how I utilize technical methods to capture light, while also confronting my own insecurities and fears. Sitting alone with a camera and a tripod is a challenging but revealing process. I am both the subject and the maker. There’s tension in that, and the image becomes my way of resolving it.

Throughout the series, I employ multiple exposures, mirrors, and eerie imagery to evoke the feeling of not fully understanding myself. I play on the idea that you can never truly see yourself, only through reflections. That act of reflecting becomes both literal and symbolic, an attempt to explore self-identity. I focus intensely on my eyes as they stare through the image and back at me; the eyes, after all, are the key to everything.

Through this process, I try to understand myself, as I often struggle to define who I want to be. I stare at my own image on a screen and ask: Who am I? What am I? What do I want to become? My photos aren’t meant to be fully understood. Some I don’t understand. My process isn’t planned, but rather spontaneous. I find this way of shooting the most creative and reflective of my own style. If I go into my shoot not knowing what's next, my photographs bring out my authentic self, something I wouldn’t be able to do through planned shooting. The emotions I am attempting to evoke are personal, but they also connect us. My work is directed towards the universal feeling of self-perception vs universal perception, which is unanimous. I want viewers to sit with their own feelings, just as I sit with mine, and reflect on the questions of existence and the search for self, through the medium of my own emotions, and focus on finding peace in one's own insecurities