What does it mean - to let go?

To be good in your own skin, to let go trying to become something other than what you are? Why do we hide so cleverly and yet yearn to be revealed so utterly?

We all struggle on a daily basis with the chasm between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen.

What are we so scared to see?

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Underneath Skin
an intimate exploration about self-image and the relationship to self

In 2007, while travelling abroad, Dita Kubin began working on a project entitled Underneath Skin, where she started using photography as a feedback tool to explore the difficult and fundamentally universal struggle of self-confrontation. She proceeded to photograph herself in unassuming environments with unscripted intentions, trying to bring forth some of the unspeakable feelings and thoughts that moved within her. The artist wanted to witness how inner conflicting forces and desires battle themselves out, so as to gain a more accurate understanding of who she felt she really is. In this photographic series, she examines her relationship to the body and her identity as an animal being.

Dita’s approach is to work unscripted, with what she has on hand. She shoots on 35mm slide film and uses only ambient light, be it natural or artificial, that is in the setting already. She employs a self-timer at varying time delays and does not style herself, wanting to keep as true to looking like herself as possible. There is no digital reconstruction on the images, only tonal and colour changes as one would make in the traditional wet-lab darkroom. Each image is a single captured frame.

All work (except for Stuck In A Room On A Child’s Bed, 2007) is shot on film.

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