Yasmin's photographic practice is grounded in the observation of landscape, flora, and the natural world. While she remains drawn to the quiet act of photographing nature, in recent years her practice has evolved from capturing singular moments to creating layered...
Read MoreYasmin's photographic practice is grounded in the observation of landscape, flora, and the natural world. While she remains drawn to the quiet act of photographing nature, in recent years her practice has evolved from capturing singular moments to creating layered composite images. Using multiple photographs taken over the course of a single afternoon or evening, she brings together subtle changes in light, atmosphere, movement, and perception. The resulting image becomes more than a record of one moment—it becomes a reflection of the experience of being there.
Her ongoing series, Traces of Me, grew from this process of layering. Most works combine around ten photographs, while others, such as the fireplace images, are composed from as many as twenty. Each layer contributes a fragment of time, memory, and emotion, gradually building an image that feels closer to lived experience than a single photograph can convey. For Yasmin, layering is both a photographic technique and a metaphor for the way our lives are shaped by the accumulation of moments, experiences, and memories.
Through this series, Yasmin explores the complexity of being human. Just as each image is built from many individual layers, our identities are formed through countless experiences—joy and sorrow, strength and vulnerability, certainty and doubt. Rather than seeking perfection, these works embrace complexity and imperfection, suggesting that beauty is found not in a single moment, but in the traces that remain as life unfolds.
