Revisiting the “Bleeding” Portraits (2022)

22 May 2025

It’s Thursday again, and today I’m diving back into my series "Bleeding", a series of nose bleed character portraits from 2022. This set is a darker chapter, drenched in raw emotion and a kind of goth that’s far from pretty. These aren’t glamour shots. They’re faces like smashed mirrors—fractured, bleeding black tears, noses bleeding blood. Not posed for the camera, but caught in the act of surviving.

There’s no softness here, only the weight of having been through something brutal, something real. But despite all that damage, you see a fierce determination, "I’m coming out the other side." It’s a reminder that sometimes, the darkest moments show us who we really are. And that survival, no matter how messy, is a form of strength all its own.

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