Initially the project was supposed to be really short but it lasted for 2/3 years in which I met people or even met again the same people I already know under a different light. During these 2/3 years I did change a lot and once the project was done I wanted to create a photo book out of it, but the person that I was working with suddenly disappeared and stopped replying therefore I decided to give up.
I completely decided to erase this project from my mind and existence. As I have been working a lot internationally, at some point at the start of this year I was at this airport in Switzerland, and what were the chances, but I met one of the people I had shot at that airport. I was drunk but she asked what happened to the project.
Her questioning it made me realise that I never asked myself truly what this project meant to me but the answer arrived to me when I arrived back to London. This project was simply there to teach me more about myself. It was a way to find pieces of my myself through people being simply simple within their spaces. Their environment has always been my environment, I just never noticed how present these people have always been in layers of my life. Always in the background but never truly noticed.
Each of the people I have met and shot did teach me something about myself and life, and because of that I am what I am today. I know who am I because of these 98 people, and before that I was only dreaming to be what I always wanted, simply a person with her own identity and understanding.
by Simran Kaur
@bolajiodukoya_