1–10 is a collaborative project exploring the lived experience of chronic pain through portraiture, text and participatory process.

Developed within a community arts context, the work brings together photographs, written reflections and creative responses shaped through conversation and shared making. The project responds to the difficulty of representing pain visually, particularly when its effects are so often misunderstood, minimised or hidden from view.

By placing portraiture alongside fragments of language shaped by personal testimony, and by drawing on multiple forms of visual and participatory expression, 1–10 creates a space in which different experiences of pain can be held collectively. The work asks how photography might approach what cannot be straightforwardly seen, and how collaborative practice can offer another way of articulating embodied experience.