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Self-portraits captured in total darkness – in pictures

Photographer Melanie Issaka made her series Locating the Personal in total darkness in her bedroom. Her self-portraits are photograms, a camera-less way of making images. She lay on sensitised photographic paper and struck poses, recording moments away from the world. Issaka, who was born in Ghana and lives in London, is fascinated by what it means to be black, British and female. “I ask questions about my place in the world. Society teaches us to look at ourselves through the eyes of others; we feel like strangers in our own bodies. This work examines my relationship with myself and the space I occupy.”

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