Conceptual Photobook · Editorial Design · Art Direction
2026
University/Personal Project
Concept: A visual exploration of grief as a transformation of love rather than its absence — built on the idea that emotions, like energy, change form rather than disappear. The project investigates how memory, identity, and love persist after physical loss.
Role: Concept & research, art direction, editorial design, photo post-production.
Process: Structured into three chapters — Collision, Transformation, Persistence — the photo book combines staged portraiture, symbolic color, fabric, and fragmented text into a non-linear narrative. Research extended beyond image-making: anonymous interviews with people who had experienced grief, plus a poem encountered during a research trip to London, became part of the editorial narrative. The visual language draws on Japanese photo books and contemporary editorial photography, prioritizing atmosphere and rhythm over linear storytelling.
Outcome: A photo book proposing that grief isn't something to resolve, but a testament to having loved — what remains is not absence, but love transformed.
Collaborators
Photography. Mark Braun
Modeling. Janet Brinz, Oriana Delgado, Luisa Kurz (Gigi), Nozomi Miyagawa
Poem. Luke Erasmus
The project originated from my own experience with loss and became an artistic investigation into how memory, identity, and love continue to exist after physical absence.
