Soft Life is a series of portraits celebrating Black women and challenging the way in which darker skinned Black women in particular are often perceived and stereotyped as intimidating and less attractive outside and often within their own communities.

Pictured from first to fourth: Tyreis Holder, Nusra Nijimbere, Sheena Brobbey & Shamica Ruddock.

Soft Life is the celebration of the side of us that society all too often fails to recognise. In these portraits the women are taking up space, smiling in their natural fullness softness and joy.

The nostalgia of love symbolised by dry and wilted flowers. Inspired by the act of keeping a bouquet of wilting flowers on display because of a reluctance to dispose of something once beautiful and adorning. In the same way we may hold onto all forms of relationships that no longer serve us in the same capacity

A conceptual piece exploring romantic love and loss taking its inspiration from the legend of the "Red String of Fate". On their own, ropes are inanimate objects that hold little meaning or significance; they only become functional when a person uses it to tie or hold something together.

In the same way a piece of string on its own serves no great purpose but in the context of the red string of fate people are destined to be connected to each other one way or another - it conveys a certain hope for future encounters that are yet to happen. In this case, using rope instead of string, the concept portrays how people are left with ties to each other as a result of romantic relationships, ties we try to forget but are etched deeply into our memories.