Chino Otsuka, having a snack in Paris in 1982.

untitled by Chino Otsuka

The little girl with the big baguette is Chino Otsuka, having a snack in Paris in 1982.  Her traveling companion on the left is also Chino Otsuka, having a snack at the same patisserie in Paris in 2005.  Her series “Imagine Finding Me” focuses on revisiting places that she has been in her past and learning about herself by “navigating the labrynth of memory” while she completes these double portraits and journals her experiences.

“If,

again

I have a chance to meet

there is so much I want to ask

and so much I want to tell”

How’s that for a journey of self-rediscovery?  Imagine Finding Me is just one of many photography projects documented on her website.  Every one is equally thought-provoking including the photographs that she put through a deep fryer and the series photographed in a vacant housing complex.  Further proof that you’re never alone as long as you’ve got a camera in your hand.