Who am I?

Hi- I’m Emma!

I’m a Black woman, living in a predominantly white suburb of Greater Manchester- UK, with my husband (who is white), and our two sons. By profession I am a registered Clinical Scientist. I am also a photographer, model, muse and writer. In 2021, at the age of 41, I was diagnosed with ADHD.

Taking up photography in 2020, gave me a medium through which to see that I am more than my labels and relationships: I am also my hobbies and my art, my hurts and my healing, my failures and victories, hopes and dreams, past and future.

I am all these things, and more.

As I delved further into self-interrogation through self-portraiture, I began to examine my own thought processes and patterns, and to see how they were limiting me. I began to write, and as I wrote and told my story, I retold my story and began to write myself anew. I realised that within the power of the human mind is the ability to imagine a new world, and within the power of the artist is the ability to create those imagined worlds, that the collective may see and contribute to the building of them, should they so desire.

My name is Emma, and I am an ever increasing circle!