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back to the roots

Eleven years ago, I was in the middle of my fifty two weeks project, where I took a self portrait every week to document what I was experiencing and feeling during my last year of school. For the final photograph in mid September, during the last week before I was turning twenty, I covered a tree in sunflowers, my favourite flowers, trying to put the feeling of ”making it on my own“ into an image. After this project had ended, I put my digital camera to the side a lot, falling more and more in love with film photography. About one and a half years later, while I was working on my portfolio for my uni application, I rediscovered the joy of laying in puddles in the cold or exploring new places in search of a shooting location. And still, over the years my approach to photography changed quite a bit. I documented more and took less self portraits. Setting up a tripod and a camera didn’t feel as natural anymore, yet every time I did, I seemed to grasp a little bit of the person I used to be and at the same time feel connected to who I still am deep down. In a heavy moment in mid November in 2019, I went to find the place where I took the fifty-second photo of my project nine years prior, searching for parts of the person I used to be so many years ago. On a whim, I tried to put my feelings into a new photograph in the same spot. It wasn’t as easy as it used to be, but as I was sitting there, I could really feel myself. And that’s what photography has always been for me for over ten years now.

Taken on: November 13, 2019

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Rona Keller

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Camera: Fujifilm X-T2, f/2.0, 1/400 sec, 35mm (=53mm), ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-T2
Lens:	XF35mmF2 R WR
Aperture:	f/2.0
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	35mm (35mm equivalent: 53mm)
ISO:	320
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Shade
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.1 (Macintosh)
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