From Her Steps To My Eyes

This is a darkroom-based double exposure project that connects my current life in London with my mother’s everyday experience in our hometown, Xiangyang. We each photographed fragments of our surroundings — she captured scenes of home, local markets, and quiet park paths, while I documented my daily life, including my flat, my multicultural neighborhood, and the Thames riverside I often walk after work. I developed both sets of black-and-white film and printed them myself in the darkroom, overlapping one image from her and one from me onto a single sheet of photographic paper. Through this analog process, I attempt to collapse distance and time, letting her steps and my gaze meet within a shared frame. These layered prints are not only visual conversations between mother and daughter, but also quiet reflections on memory, belonging, and the invisible threads that connect us across generations.