The Guardian

The Guardian - I’ll be my mirror: sizzling self-portraits – in pictures

Marriage, injury, anxiety and grief are all explored in the these stunning images from the Mirror of Self exhibition at PhotoBrussels festival

Mee-Lai Stone

@mlestone

Thu 19 Jan 2023 07.00 GMT

Sara, France, 2011, from the series Khamsa khamsa khamsa, 2012-2022

This series is the result of a 20-year process, begun by Julia Gat at the age of 14. Gat tells the story of her childhood and adolescence, growing up alongside her two brothers and two sisters. It is a visual autobiographical narrative in the form of a family archive. Her mother used to say ‘the archive keeps that world we lived in as a real place, which otherwise could be easily mistaken for a dream’