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SECOND HOME
Photography, 2023

Second Home is a staged photographic series that explores estrangement, memory, and the uneasy transition from adolescence into adulthood. Drawing from my experience of living with my homestay “siblings” during high school in Canada, the work reconstructs distant relationships and fragmented recollections through carefully composed self-portraiture. Across the series, familiar spaces, gestures, and objects reappear in altered form, reflecting how once-intimate bonds can become psychologically distant over time.

Informed by Sigmund Freud’s notion of the uncanny, the series considers how familiarity and unfamiliarity can exist at once. Stoic, doll-like poses and minimal settings create a sense of emotional stillness, while recurring objects and staged interactions suggest the fragile persistence of memory. At the same time, the work reflects on the pressure of growing into adulthood within the demands of social and cultural expectations, where identity can feel suspended between belonging and detachment. Through reenactment, the series traces the quiet disorientation of becoming unfamiliar to others, and to oneself.

2022 Booooooom Photo Awards Winner, “Things”


Winner of the “Things” category in the 2022 Booooooom Photo Awards, this recognition highlights my interest in staged photography, symbolism, and emotionally charged image-making.

 

Read the full interview on Boooooom.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design The Grad Show 2023

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BROAD Magazine Rituals Issue
Hairut, Second Home, 2023
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