'Petals of Girlhood' is a photographic project that explores the female gaze as both a way of seeing and a way of being seen. It reclaims the camera as a site of authorship, where the subject is not reduced to an object, but emerges as an active presence within the frame.
Through a series of intimate images, the work reflects on girlhood and its quiet transformations—moments of softness, vulnerability, curiosity, and becoming. The gaze is gentle yet deliberate, attentive to detail and emotion, resisting spectacle in favour of closeness and care.
The project considers how femininity has been shaped and observed, and seeks to reimagine it from within, centering lived experience, interiority, and self-definition. In doing so, 'Petals of Girlhood' offers a visual language that is tender but assured, where looking becomes an act of connection, and where the subject retains her agency, complexity, and voice.