Personal
The personal work of Photographer and Director Daeja Fallas including her now sold out book Bodega Flowers released in 2018.
When my grandfather passed it felt to me like an entire ocean had evaporated. The life-giving force of my world had gone. After returning to New York, the days blended together in a cold, rainy daze. The fog that clouds our brains after we lose someone had settled in. I began making these photos as a way to understand how the world could keep spinning on as it always had. I was searching for a way to document the half-conscious state we are in after we face a tragedy. What happens to our minds, where do we go in this haze?
When considering this statement, I considered my friends, family, community, and my own children knowing the response would be different from each and every person. With that in mind, I set out to tell their story, as individuals each on a different path. The future of beauty is inclusive of all. On the following pages are a few faces that I believe represent a bright future.
Thank you, Clinique, for the opportunity to tell this story.
As I walked around my hometown of Kailua on the island of Oahu in Hawai’i trying to settle my newborn daughter to sleep I began to notice how the flora and fauna of the island was reminiscent of human anatomy. How a Heliconia resembled a spine or the petal of a pink ginger a tongue. Working closely with Tamara Rigney of Paiko and Mei Day over 2 years we photographed friends, strangers, artists, and lots and lots of plants. Plant Life opened at Ars Gallery in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 1, 2019.
