Little Brother and Sister

This series of black-and-white film photographs was made while spending time with three orphaned fawns in the United States. The intimacy of that encounter shaped the work deeply, blurring boundaries between human and animal, care and kinship. While photographing, I often thought of the Grimm fairy tale Little Brother and Sister, where transformation occurs through water, longing, and loss. The images hover between presence and myth, holding a quiet sense of enchantment and grief.

"And when they came to the third brook the sister heard how it said as it ran, 
"Who drinks of me will be a deer; who drinks of me will be a deer" The sister said, "Oh, I pray you, dear brother, do not drink, or you will become a roebuck, and run away from me." But the brother had knelt down at once by the brook, and had bent down and drunk some of the water, and as soon as the first drops touched his lips he lay there a young deer."
- Brother Grimm, 'Little Brother and Sister.'