During this residency, I will focus on the personal and generational echoes of trauma through a photographic project rooted in my own experience. The work explores the lasting impact of the abuse my father endured as a child on a catholic boarding school and how it ampacted my life and the dynamics within my family. This chapter of the project centers on my own emotional inheritance: the silent transmission of wounds, and the ways in which trauma manifests in the body, identity, and relationships.
Through self-portraiture combined with symbolic imagery, I aim to articulate themes of emotional detachment, masculinity, freedom and loss. These visual elements will not just represent pain but will also act as a confrontation—a reclaiming of narrative. Using photography as both a tool of introspection and storytelling, I hope to create a space where inherited trauma can be acknowledged and processed visually.
This work is not about placing blame, but about making sense of an emotional legacy that often goes unseen. It’s a step toward breaking the cycle, through vulnerability, visibility, and creative expression.
