Personal Projects
My personal projects are a central part of my creative practice, allowing me to explore image-making in a more instinctive and self-directed way outside the framework of a client brief. Through self-initiated concepts, I develop ideas around identity, memory, femininity, and visual storytelling while continuing to refine my skills across photography, lighting, composition, styling, and post-production. The work featured here reflects my interest in creating emotionally charged narratives through atmosphere, intention, and a strong visual point of view.
Calendar Girl.
Calendar Girl is a self-initiated visual diary built from a year of personal journal entries written throughout a turbulent relationship. Structured month by month, each image responds to a specific memory or emotional turning point, translating lived experience into constructed editorial scenes.
Exploring heartbreak, self-discovery, and femininity, the project uses highly stylised imagery, set design, and visual storytelling to trace the emotional rhythm of that year - from absence and reconciliation to instability, escapism, and the eventual experience of leaving home during the breakup. Presented alongside the original diary entries in a calendar format, each photograph acts as a visual interpretation of a particular moment in time.
At its core, Calendar Girl is a project about memory, performance, and emotional expression, while also serving as a space to further develop my practice across creative direction, photography, lighting, styling, composition, and post-production.
At its core, Calendar Girl is a project about memory, performance, and emotional expression, while also serving as a space to further develop my practice across creative direction, photography, lighting, styling, composition, and post-production.
Constructed Selves.
Constructed Selves is a self-initiated editorial project developed in response to the documentary Paris Is Burning and the underground ballroom culture of 1980s New York. Through editorial photography, movement, styling, and performance, the project explores themes of identity, gender expression, and transformation.
Rooted in a culture that created space for self-definition, belonging, and chosen family, the work reflects on how ballroom communities used creativity as both celebration and resistance, shaping visual culture in ways that continue to influence fashion, beauty, music, and image-making today.
Rather than centring the project solely around garments, Constructed Selves uses movement, distortion, motion blur, styling, and experimental post-production to communicate themes of community, ostracisation, connection, and strength. It also provided a space to develop my practice across creative direction, photography, lighting, styling, and editing in a more conceptual, narrative-led way.
Girlhood Online.
Girlhood Online is a self-initiated editorial project exploring the impact of social media and digital culture on modern childhood through the perspective of my younger sister, who began growing up online during the COVID-19 pandemic. At six years old, much of her education, communication, and social interaction shifted onto screens, introducing digital life at an age more traditionally shaped by outdoor play, imagination, and in-person connection.
Through conversations with her, I began reflecting on the contrast between her upbringing and my own experience of childhood in the early 2000s, before constant online exposure became the norm. The project explores how technology is reshaping the way children socialise, communicate, and begin to understand themselves from an increasingly young age.
It also considers how quickly young girls are now exposed to ideas around appearance, beauty standards, body image, and self-presentation through platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. Concepts once encountered much later - around makeup, hair, weight, and online validation - are now introduced during formative years, shaping identity long before those consuming them fully understand their meaning.
Shot outdoors on iPhone using pieces sourced from my mother's wardrobe, the imagery contrasts innocence, playfulness, and fantasy with the growing influence of online culture and curated self-image. The project reflects on the loss of childhood naivety in the digital age, while questioning how constant online exposure may be shaping confidence, self-worth, and identity in younger generations.