endosode
Endosode begins from the photographer’s lived experience of endometriosis and examines the hidden realities of living daily with chronic pain. Developed over a three-year period, the work reflects on the medical and societal silencing surrounding the condition and the ways this shapes a life lived with and through endometriosis.
Bringing together photographs made during periods of acute pain and their wider consequences, the project considers the tension between perceived reality and lived experience, between what is outwardly visible and what remains unseen. Through the sequencing of the images and the use of both positive and negative photographic states within the photobook, the work explores the instability of visibility itself.
Rather than a cathartic account, Endosode opens out a wider conversation around pain, invisibility and the politics of being seen. While rooted in the experience of endometriosis, the work speaks more broadly to the hidden conditions and private struggles that shape many lives.
Developed from the project.
photobook