New Photobook: Thank You For Playing With Me
“Thank You For Playing With Me” dives into researching the concept of modern beauty, documenting portraits of Enam Ewura Adjoa Asiama and Vanessa Russell from 2019 to 2022. This book is an intimate record of that journey. Book Launch at The Photographers' Gallery 18.30-20.00 Thu 25 Jan, 2024 As seen in the National Portrait Gallery, Dazed, i-D, Nowness, BBC, Creative Review Pre-Order available now
The expectation of being skinny as the standard is relentless in Asian beauty culture. I’ve experienced the stress of this since a very young age. In 2019, when I was thinking about this body image topic again, I came across Enam’s Instagram profile. I was taken by her confidence and charisma.
Suddenly it clicked; I’m a photographer, I create images. Images don’t create me.
I collaborated with Enam and Vanessa over the next three years, we went on the journey of transformation personally and collectively, finding our own foot in the world, career changes and moving cities, grieving the lost ones and celebrating the new life - sisterhood, womanhood and motherhood.
It's a call for us all to play, to be human, and to celebrate the unique beauty that resides within each of us.
Press
Nowness
Nowness Asia
Dazed
i-D
Publico P3 - Thank You For Playing With Me
Fisheye
It's Nice That
British Journal of Photography
Exhibition
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition, Cromwell Place, London 2021
Neo Hua Ren, The Crypt Gallery, London 2019
Award
2020 National Portrait's Gallery Taylor Wessing Prize
2019 Creative Review Photography Annual - Honourable Mention
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Product photographed by Isaak Hest
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