Environmental self-portraits

This series of environmental self-portraits documents my everyday domestic activities within a 110-year-old villa, using the home as both subject and spatial framework. Across five photographs, carefully selected scenes highlight daily rituals, material qualities, colour palettes, and distinctive architectural details that contribute to the character of the house. The compositions predominantly employ parallel perspectives to maintain consistent spatial dimensions and create a controlled, dollhouse-like effect.

The sequence unfolds narratively from the front to the back of the house, beginning with the opening of the front door—the only image in which my face is visible—followed by lighting a fire, drinking tea, bathing, and concluding with a view into the kitchen from the balcony. Read alongside the floor plan, the images trace a clear spatial journey and invite interpretation of presence, observation, and use.

All photographs were taken during the brief period after sunrise or before sunset, when soft ambient light contrasts with continuous warm interior lighting. Influenced by Julia Fullerton-Batten’s Looking Out from Within, the series explores interior–exterior relationships, light balance, and domestic scale.