2025 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

Would I ever recognise him, or would a different sense betray his presence?

Minami Ivory

Would I ever recognise him, or would a different sense betray his presence?, 2025 chemigrams on photographic paper 25.4 x 20.3 cmFramed: 35 x 30 cm

From the series Weapon of Choice, this work challenges the systematic abuse of women in Japanese society through revisiting a summer of violence that I endured at the age of 14.
The images are representations of living with trauma: of moving between resisting and remembering. Chemicals have been used as olfactory triggers and manipulated with visual elements to express fragmented memories representing the summer of 2001.
Despite my efforts, this predator's face remains elusive.