I shot Sereena in the studio last week. Sereena is 24 years of age and going into her second year of University studying Music Visual Art and performance. She is of mixed heritage of Iranian/Jamaican decent and was born and brought up in London. Her Father is Iranian and came to Britain at the age of 23years old just before the Iranian revolution in 1979.
Sereena “I do not really know where to say I’m from, I was born in London raised there and in greater London with both parants till the age of 6years then with my Mother.”
“I used to sing in a Trip Hop Blues band which I absolutley loved. Before starting this course I probably saw myself more as a singer, but now I think of myself as more of as a performance artist. I love traveling like the majority of people that seem to live in Brghton. I Love food, cooking it, eating it! I like swimming as I’m a bit of a water baby! I love socialising and bringing a smile to friends and strangers faces”.
Sereena :
The whole process from entering the darken studio, to being confronted with a camera that stood only half a metre away from my face, I instantly thought would promote a perhaps less sincere and maybe uncomfortable response; but I was amazed to find how easily my recalling of these particular emotionally significant events unraveled, and how moments of embarrassment were soon ousted. The process in a strange way behaved as a form of therapy – as how your emotion pour out when you go to see a counselor. In previous years I had always just pushed my emotions to aside without really acknowleging them, but as I’ve got older I’ve learnt that all that does is turn into an unhealthy repression which subsequently, only damages myself.
