PRESENCE: COCOONING AND EXPANSION
A photographic journey into the art of being.
Through the metaphor of the blanket and the vastness of nature, this project explores the transition from self-protection to inner freedom. It is an invitation for women to shed social masks, embrace their bodies, and rediscover their authentic strength in a space of total acceptance. Here, nature becomes a partner, and the camera — a tool for reclaiming one’s own presence.
THE PRESENT EXISTS: A Living Archive
This is not a project with an end. It is a commitment to the act of remembering.
The Present Exists is an ongoing, multi-layered exploration of survival, migration, and the architecture of memory. It is the story of a life split into 'before' and 'after'—from the tragic loss of my mother at 21 to the legacy of my father’s thirty apple trees.
What began as a personal journey to process grief has grown into a vast archive of existence. It is a dialogue between the girl I was in Kazakhstan and the woman I am today in the UK. Through every handmade zine, every 10-minute walk to the cemetery, and every film, I am documenting the only home that can never be taken away: The memory of love.
SEEKING SILENCE
What do you do when you stop hearing yourself?
I stopped answering my phone.
I stopped talking to friends.
Not because something had happened. I had simply become exhausted by the constant noise around me. Conversations started to feel empty. There were so many voices, opinions and expectations that I had stopped hearing my own.
So I went to the sea.
I started photographing it every day. What began as a search for silence gradually became a way of listening to myself again.
One day, one photograph, one small piece of the present at a time.