After an important relationship ended, I start to focus on creating a photographic narrative based on my experience of lose. By portraying myself to express the loneliness and emotional shifts, I documented the transformation from brokenhearted to self-reconstruction. By observing these self-portraits in different phases, it gave the viewers the advantages to see through the longing, pain, and confusion.
The body of work focuses on building a narrative, leading the viewers from the first chapter of the break-up to the very last of new self-recognition. The first chapter takes place in the lighting studio. The pure gray backdrop indicates the confusions at the beginning. Then the second chapter shifts to a new phase of living a life alone in my own apartment. The portraits simply confront the feeling of losing and the emotional changes from madness to pain. The third chapter takes place in a wooded landscape; the portraits symbolizes a new start. These chapters filled with different textures and environments. By showing my intimate moments and vulnerability, the loneliness after the break-up can be taken off from the photographs themselves.
