Corpus

  • Dates
    2022 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Topics Documentary, Portrait, Social Issues
  • Location London, United Kingdom

Fourteen women. Fourteen domestic spaces. 'Corpus' is a project about presence, vulnerability, and the conversations we rarely have about our bodies. Each image carries weight because it cannot be taken again.

My relationship with my own body has always been complicated. That tension is where Corpus began.
In my late twenties I wanted to speak about something I kept seeing around me: the ways women carry their bodies, the private struggles that rarely get spoken aloud. Body dysmorphia, sexuality, identity, chronic illness. The things that live just beneath the surface of how we present ourselves.
I photographed fourteen women, each in her own domestic space. The sessions became something closer to photo therapy than photography. What mattered most wasn't the photograph. It was the conversation. I limited myself to two rolls of 120 film per person one colour, one black and white. Not as a constraint for its own sake, but as a commitment to presence, to slowness, to the idea that each frame carries weight because it cannot be taken again.
Afterwards, each participant received a selection of images and was invited to respond in writing. The texts came back as letters, poems, apologies. In some cases, no text at all. Those silences are part of the work too.

Corpus by Dasha Lazo

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