"Trying to let go and remember you all at the same time"

There has always been something stopping me to express vulnerability until a close friend recently told me it was my duty as a photographer to reveal that part of myself. My series conveys the complexities of watching my Mother suffer through a long term illness and slowly loose the ability to stop the fight. Grief can happen over the course of minutes or even seconds, across days, months or years and then switch around without warning, leaving you without foundation. You suddenly feel alien to yourself and cut off from the world. However like any emotional amputation, continuing on in life without that part of yourself and finding new ways to compensate and find beauty and a gift of getting in touch with another you in the chaos. I relate each image to myself, subconsciously pealing back the layers of grief, fear and vulnerability, love and loss. My series were taken at Coogee Baths in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. All images were photographed on the same afternoon. I used double exposures. No manipulation or photoshop was used. I would like to exhibit as a first series and I am currently working on the next series.