MIKA MORET | SEEKING

SEEKING
By Mika Moret

“Now I see photography as a way to know different parts of me and explore my body. It helps me get in touch with a deeper level of self-love and self-worth.” – Mika Moret

Photography has been a part of my life since my early adolescence. I grew up in a big city in Brazil and always had a sense of longing for my place in this world. My love for photography started when my father bought me a small digital camera, and I loved spending whole afternoons exploring my surroundings with it – and how I could experience the world around me from a completely new perspective. With a few changes in ISO and shutter speed, I could make a day out of a dark night; or bring warmth to a rainy day just by changing the image colors. I was obsessed with the idea I could keep ephemeral things alive forever.
I started taking self-portraits over ten years ago as a way to discover myself as a person. It allowed me to see myself in ways I could not see before and forced me to put different visions into my own body. I see self-portraiture as a means to understand my own existence. This art helped me be kinder to myself and get in touch with a deeper level of self-love. Photography helped me to be kinder to myself – I am now grateful for my body and what it allows me to do.
Through a mix of techniques, from digital manipulation to purely natural light and composition of the body in nature, the images of this project aim to find an answer to what our place is in this world.

The “Seeking” project started in 2020. I was struggling with the concept of my own identity during isolation. I felt so detached from the things that used to define me, which gave me a bittersweet feeling of freedom – if I was so far away from what I used to be, did that mean I could become a better version of myself then?
– Mika Moret

“Photography helped me to be kinder to myself – I am now grateful for my body and what it allows me to do.”

MIKA MORET

Mika Moret is an internationally award-winning Brazilian photographer and visual storyteller.
Her passion for photography began as a child when her father brought her a gift, a small digital camera, and with it, Mika began her journey of discovery and making miracles, especially in creating unique self-portraits. In the past years, Moret has exhibited her work in Solo and Group exhibitions around the world, including a solo exhibition at College Lane Gallery (former CC Gallery) in Howth, Ireland, in June/2021 and a collective exhibition dedicated to abstract art as part of the Five Lamps Arts Festival in Dublin, Ireland; April/2022.

“I felt so detached from the things that used to define me, which gave me a bittersweet feeling of freedom – if I was so far away from what I used to be, did that mean I could become a better version of myself then?”

Moret’s work has been published in international publications, such as on the Cover of Bealtaine Magazine (an independent Irish magazine for Literature and Arts, April/2022) as well as on the cover of the ViVid Project: fundraising magazine created by Sunny Sardini for Minding Creative Minds; May/2021.

“Through a mix of techniques, from digital manipulation to purely natural light and composition of the body in nature, the images of this Project aim to find an answer to what our place is in this world.”

Mika Moret has been awarded international awards, including the Neutral Density Awards in 2022, The International Photography Awards (IPA) in the “non-professional” people category: Official Jury Selection and Honorable Mention; September/2022, The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) Awards in the “non-professional” category: Second place in Portraiture and Gold Prize in Self Portrait; August/2022.

See the full article in Lens Magazine Issue #100