Light That Followed Her

This series began after Soundarya moved from India to the UK, when she started noticing how selfhood shifts across different places and ways of being seen. Working from printed black-and-white self-portraits, she intervenes with jewellery carried from home or gifted by the women in her life, each piece holding its own history and meaning.

The jewellery becomes a quiet language of womanhood and belonging, revealing how identity is shaped by what we carry, what we inherit, and how the body is read in a new context. Placing these objects onto neutral prints and rephotographing them brings the past and present into the same frame, creating portraits that hold both the familiarity of home and the strangeness of migration.