170 x 240mm, 54 pages, Colour printed, Japanese stab bound, Card cover w/ die cut & emboss, Hand numbered edition of 100, 2025

Based on field research conducted by a female artist travelling alone in Iraq, What I Saw, What Saw Me offers a reflection on perception under conditions of political instability and gendered scrutiny. Developed through sustained engagement with unfamiliar environments, the publication examines how the act of looking becomes reciprocal, and how the body shifts between observer and exposed subject.

By bringing together photographs and short texts, the book reconsiders photography not as documentary evidence but as a situated and relational practice. It interrogates how visibility is structured within asymmetrical power conditions, and how the photographer’s own position is implicated in systems of surveillance, interpretation, and control.

Through a bilingual structure in which English text is printed directly onto the spreads and Chinese text is inserted as layered pages within the binding, the publication introduces a decentralised narrative framework. These material interruptions complicate authorship and destabilise singular authority, inviting a reconsideration of how images are read across linguistic and cultural registers.

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