Man is a series of self-portraits in which I use my own body to examine masculinity, grief, and transformation. Across the images, my face is repeatedly obscured, while my body becomes unstable, fragmented, or difficult to recognise.

The title establishes a tension between the apparent certainty of the word man and the forms of masculinity enacted in the photographs. Through adornment, concealment, fluidity, and theatrical gesture, I place my own image outside a conventional masculine vocabulary. Masculinity appears here as something performed, questioned, and continually reconstructed.

Created in the aftermath of losing a close friend to homophobic violence, the series approaches mourning through self-transformation rather than direct testimony. By placing myself inside these staged situations, I explore how grief alters one’s perception of the self and how queer identity persists after violence and loss. The photographs move between rupture and reappearance, turning self-portraiture into a space of remembrance, resistance, and reinvention.