Helen in Wanderlust is a visual exploration of travel as both an external and internal experience. Interpretation of place is shaped as much by memory, perspective, and personal history as by the environments themselves. Rather than presenting travel as purely idealised, space is left for reflection, ambiguity, and complexity alongside beauty.

Recurring visual elements create continuity across locations, forming a symbolic language within the imagery. Architecture and thresholds recur as markers of transition and passage, while scale is used to explore presence, distance, and vulnerability. Flowing fabric, colour, and the interplay of shadow and light appear not only as ornament, but as expressive tools and metaphor that carry mood and tension from one environment to the next. Together, these elements allow meaning to build gradually across different locations, guided by feeling rather than fixed narrative.

Self-portraiture is created in collaboration with local photographers, guided by a predefined creative direction and shaped deliberately from within the frame. In parallel, documentary photographs are self captured in spontaneous moments of encounter. Together, these approaches form a 360 visual documentation, both in front of and behind the lens.