When the Air Turned Thin

Made in the aftermath of survival, this series confronts the claustrophobia of early parenthood unfolding during a global crisis. The images are close, compressed, emotionally direct. Anxiety sits in the frame as deliberately as light.
Relief at having made it through coexists with grief and vigilance. The photographer documents the tension of becoming a parent for the first time while sensing that something is different, uncertain, uncharted. These are not images of idealized domestic calm. They are honest records of confinement, intensity, fear, and the fragile exhilaration of being alive when others are not.
The work privileges proximity—physical and emotional. Backgrounds hum with energy. Grain and contrast register pressure. What emerges is a portrait of resilience shaped not by triumph, but by confrontation with the unknown.