Marina Wahba Photographer

19/06/2021

First wedding of the season ✨ What a dream! 🤩💖

17/03/2021

self portraits - take care of yourself

16/03/2021

16/03/2021

last work for

31/01/2021

Embrace me: who am I if not a part of you?

The relationship between mother and daughter is complicated. Through these photographs I wanted to represent what my mother means to me: a woman, a daughter, a mother who had to go through many adversities all her life. As children, we see parents as a constant in our existence. After suffering several losses, I embraced photography and through it I was able to embrace my mother. And now, the years pass and the fear of losing her is what I wanted to portray, rediscovering the past that unites us. This project is the result of an intimate relationship that differentiates us.
 
This project is about family and identity. A project that aims to further connect my mother and me. My mother has regularly been the subject on my work offering herself and her body as the subject of my observations. For this project I have offered myself to her in exchange. This project is our connection. I gaze at her and she gazes at me. I am she and she is me. I am her evolution. While I was shooting her I ask myself: who am I if not a part of you?
  
Random glances, hand gestures, subtle changes in body language, physical proximity (or lack of), shared embarrassment, vulnerability and admission of uncertainty have become the focus of the photographs. In this work, as in the rest of my artistic practice, I have tried to focus on our essence, our physicality, our vulnerability, as we grow older and older - the things in common that make us human, to emphasize remarkable similarities rather than apparent differences across cultures and ultimately to try to find beauty in shared humanity.

30/01/2021

: Embrace me: who am I if not a part of you?

The relationship between mother and daughter is complicated. Through these photographs I wanted to represent what my mother means to me: a woman, a daughter, a mother who had to go through many adversities all her life. As children, we see parents as a constant in our existence. After suffering several losses, I embraced photography and through it I was able to embrace my mother. And now, the years pass and the fear of losing her is what I wanted to portray, rediscovering the past that unites us. This project is the result of an intimate relationship that differentiates us.
 
This project is about family and identity. A project that aims to further connect my mother and me. My mother has regularly been the subject on my work offering herself and her body as the subject of my observations. For this project I have offered myself to her in exchange. This project is our connection. I gaze at her and she gazes at me. I am she and she is me. I am her evolution. While I was shooting her I ask myself: who am I if not a part of you?
  
Random glances, hand gestures, subtle changes in body language, physical proximity (or lack of), shared embarrassment, vulnerability and admission of uncertainty have become the focus of the photographs. In this work, as in the rest of my artistic practice, I have tried to focus on our essence, our physicality, our vulnerability, as we grow older and older - the things in common that make us human, to emphasize remarkable similarities rather than apparent differences across cultures and ultimately to try to find beauty in shared humanity.

30/01/2021

a shoulder to lean on

28/01/2021