Alone

Of all the Me's I am in my life, am I the real me on my own?'

 

Alone was a six-month photographic project that explored the relationship between solitude and selfhood. Using her phone, Sarah captured spontaneous self-portraits during moments when she was alone and felt at peace. These images, unplanned and instinctive, form a quiet archive of personal encounters with the self.

Sarah draws on theories of identity as fluid and performative, particularly Judith Butler’s concept of performativity, to question whether the solitary self is more authentic or simply another version shaped by context, even if that context is absence. 

By using a smartphone, Sarah intentionally blurs the boundaries between private and public, casual and intentional. The immediacy of the medium allowed her to respond instinctively to moments of inner stillness, creating a visual diary that resists spectacle and embraces vulnerability.

Alone is not a celebration of isolation, but a meditation on presence. It asks: who are we when no one is watching? And can photography, in its quiet witnessing, help us see ourselves more clearly?