I am not here
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“I'm not here.” This is a quiet confession, a slow and gentle escape.
In this series of works, I try to capture an uncertain state of existence—the figures wander on the border, outlined by the light, but deliberately avoiding the gaze. They bow their heads, turn around, huddle up, lean, sink into the plants or the shadows indoors, as if maintaining a subtle distance from the world. This is not a complete absence, but a kind of selective concealment, a kind of physical “self-editing”.
I am interested in the tension between “revealing” and “withdrawing”. Photography, as a medium of capture, always seems to be trying to “fix” a certain existence. But in these images, what I want to leave behind are the dissipating moments, the traces and positions of individuals in space as they try to redefine themselves.
These images are like a kind of posture exercise – about how to leave the center of attention, how to refuse to become the object of the gaze, or how to disappear while being seen. They are also about how to control your body, rhythm and emotions in small ways, and to preserve an unattainable private space while being recorded.
This is both an “exercise in disappearing” and a gentle form of resistance.