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15 Metres to Tell Us Apart aims to explore and emphasise the importance, the vital need of having a space of my own. I spent my life medicated, I lost sight of reality, and myself along the way. I was not really looking, nor questioning most things in my life. I accepted circumstances as they were. The norm, or so I thought. My needs became non-existent, due to a lack of boundaries. I wondered how I had survived, barely, squished, a sense of suffocation pervading me.

It never occurred to me to turn my camera inwards, to point it at the domestic spaces, or perhaps I never thought of it as a means to question, question my life. As if photographing my home became a mirror to myself. I wasn’t portraying; I was too portrayed. I looked for the quiet moments. I rummaged through the four walls, searching for my sense of self in the spaces we call home.

Gradually, I began to photograph the objects that surrounded me, items that hold comfort, memories, or personal value. Over time, I started to include myself within the images, asserting my presence in the space I had claimed. Through this process, photography became a way of holding space, for myself, for my needs, and for a presence that had long been deferred.