'Where My Shadow Still Lingers'

My work explores the themes of Memory, Displacement, and Nostalgia through documentary photography. As an immigrant living in Ireland for nearly two decades, I am drawn back to my homeland, Latvia. Returning not just to places, but to the feelings and fragments of a life that once was. The title ‘Where my shadow still lingers’ reflects this sense of presence in absence, I walk through familiar landscapes where only a trace of my former self still remains.
I photograph slowly and intuitively, allowing each place to speak before I raise my camera. These images are quiet meditation on reconnection and loss. My late mother is deeply imbedded in my work, through both the memories we shared and the archival photographs I incorporate in to the series.
Working in black & white allows me to strip the image to its essence, removing distraction and inviting reflection. I combine digital photography with archival material to create a visual dialogue between the past and present, self and shadow, home and away.