Dina Haddad

San Francisco, CA

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In moments of reflection, I find myself as a small particle in a universe that is moving along without me. Reflection, in this sense, is defined as an observation of your conscious feelings and emotions. I’m using the process of image-making to create an echo of this contemplation. My personal contemplation of delusion, reality, individuality, and the self. I highlight the idea of the individual by presenting myself in my most vulnerable places and positions. Posing myself in the bedroom and bathroom, which acted as my sanctuaries from family, people, and reality as a child and now as an adult. Positioning myself in what I consider “intimate apparel” with my body facing the camera in very open and vulnerable stances. The landscapes function as moments of quietness and serenity throughout the self-evaluation process, and as initiators of feelings of grandeur. The landscapes are taken in locations of significant moments of self-reflection either in response to an event or the action of going to take the image i

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