You Felt the Roots Grow – Sabine Hess
Ciao Press
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"I hold your hand and, carefully, try to capture it. Imprint on my brain the texture of your wrinkly skin, the warmth of your touch, the way your fingers wrap around mine."
After seven years of illness, my father´s battle with his cancer was coming to an end. I was torn between conflicting emotions, as my sister became a mother around the same time my father´s health declined. Watching a new life groe whilst another was weakening redefined my understanding of time – it became clear just how fragile life really is.
At times, when home felt too close, nature gave my mind a safe place to rest. All the while, the forest´s slow growth and decay resembled the illness that was consuming life as I knew it.
You Felt the Roots Grow was born in a time between hope and grief. It is my personal experience as a daughter, in which I face the bittersweetness of transience, the poetry within loss and the incompleteness of memory.
Sabine Hess (b.1994), is a Swiss photographer, based between London and Thun, Switzerland. She graduated from the London College of Communication in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in 2022. Her photographic practice centers around intimate narratives and notions of home, belonging, loss, and memory. Alongside her documentary projects. Hess has experience in editorial and portraiture photography. Clients include FT Weekend Magazine, PORT Magazine, M le Magazine du Monde, and Jigsaw. Her first book You felt The Roots Grow was shortlisted for the Star Photobook Dummy Award.
128 pages
220 x 270 mm
ISBN 979-12-801772-5-4
After seven years of illness, my father´s battle with his cancer was coming to an end. I was torn between conflicting emotions, as my sister became a mother around the same time my father´s health declined. Watching a new life groe whilst another was weakening redefined my understanding of time – it became clear just how fragile life really is.
At times, when home felt too close, nature gave my mind a safe place to rest. All the while, the forest´s slow growth and decay resembled the illness that was consuming life as I knew it.
You Felt the Roots Grow was born in a time between hope and grief. It is my personal experience as a daughter, in which I face the bittersweetness of transience, the poetry within loss and the incompleteness of memory.
Sabine Hess (b.1994), is a Swiss photographer, based between London and Thun, Switzerland. She graduated from the London College of Communication in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in 2022. Her photographic practice centers around intimate narratives and notions of home, belonging, loss, and memory. Alongside her documentary projects. Hess has experience in editorial and portraiture photography. Clients include FT Weekend Magazine, PORT Magazine, M le Magazine du Monde, and Jigsaw. Her first book You felt The Roots Grow was shortlisted for the Star Photobook Dummy Award.
128 pages
220 x 270 mm
ISBN 979-12-801772-5-4
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