A beautiful collection in regards to the methods wherein we replicate on moments of heightened emotion by San Francisco-based photographer Amber Hakim. In grappling with intense emotions like love, loss or need, Hakim challenges the outdated adage that point heals all wounds, suggesting as an alternative that how we interact (or disassociate) from such recollections can usually “maintain time hostage.” On this sense, we counteract our personal therapeutic — stretching and becoming time to suit across the experiences we’re holding on to, morphing them into one thing extra summary and countless:
“Rising up muslim within the States submit 9/11 closely formed how I started to interpret and work together with the world round me. With my interior and outer worlds feeling at odds with each other I discovered that I’d escape into my very own thoughts for lengthy durations of time solely to emerge feeling mentally exhausted. The pathways our minds take to decipher that means from the mundane of the on a regular basis could be a journey. You’ll be able to obsess over minute particulars and miss the larger image or vice versa. I’ve at all times been obsessive about how we decode visible imagery and make the most of symbolism or abstraction to convey emotion and that means, very similar to decoding a portray. I encourage anybody viewing the work to deal with my photographs as such.”
See extra photographs from “Time is a Ineffective Measurement of Ache” beneath. Amber Hakim was additionally one of many winners from our first-ever Booooooom Picture Awards earlier this 12 months. You’ll be able to take a look at her profitable picture here!