Visit with Ruby - from the ongoing project 'Decoding Bodhi' - 2021, digital photograph
As I’ve turned my lens towards my adolescent step daughter, I’ve entered her inner world in ways I did not see before. Her matter of fact sense of self and the richness of her unique expression-which had been masked under layers of anxiety and behaviors once hard to decode for me as a parent-have begun to come undone painting a broader picture of this period of great transition and transformation in her life (and during C19). Light and shadows representing what I am allow to see at the present moment and what is yet to become visible. In some way, her process is a reflection of mine; I have become comfortable in the not knowing and letting things be, as an extension of me, the camera shows me what is ready to be revealed. It is the magic of the process.
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I am pleased to say your image is one of those selected to be in the Arles Poster Exhibition.
Many thanks,
Simon
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