DARKER DAYS AHEAD

This project photographic inquiry into my lived experience of anxiety, understood not simply as a condition, but as an ongoing presence that alters perception and disrupts my sense of self and reality. It manifests within the ordinary—subtly shifting light, space, and time—so that daily life becomes unfamiliar, as if layered with something unseen yet constantly felt. Grounded in the observation of mundane routines and brief encounters, this project uses photography as a method of tracing that presence. The images move between clarity and distortion, documenting moments where connection feels both possible and fragile. Within these spaces, anxiety appears as something that lingers—a quiet force that exists between the internal and the external, the real and the imagined. Through this work, I attempt to negotiate distance and proximity: to remain with the unease while searching for moments of return. By engaging the everyday through a lens of subtle estrangement, the project proposes anxiety as both a personal and perceptual condition, while also opening the possibility for reconnection with the self and the world.