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 along the Thames and in my multicultural neighbourhood.

I developed and printed both sets of black-and-white film 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 collapse distance and time, allowing her steps and my eyes to meet within a shared frame. These layered prints are visual conversations between mother and daughter - quiet reflections on memory, belonging, and the invisible threads that connect us across generations.