PHOTOGRAPHY. SHAPED BY IDENTITY, CARE & CONNECTION
Single Use examines the quiet traces left by objects designed to be temporary — the disposables that pass through moments of care, then vanish.
These items - gloves, syringes, tablets, bandages - are made to serve a purpose and be discarded. Yet in their brief existence, they hold proximity to pain, healing, and human touch. Their materials may be sterile, but their histories are not.
Photographed under controlled studio conditions with a 50mm lens and a single off-camera flash, each object is treated with the same precision often reserved for portraiture.
The series isolates what’s routinely overlooked - turning evidence of care into quiet symbols of dependency, vulnerability, and loss.
At its core, Single Use reflects on the fragility of intervention - how something designed for safety and hygiene can also carry emotional residue. It questions what remains once care has been given, and what it means for compassion to exist in something meant to be thrown away.