Photographer and visual artist based in London

As a photographer, I document the everyday routines and textures of British life through the eyes of an outsider turned insider. My work is shaped by the experience of immigration - the act of building a new home, new identity and learning to see the world again through that shift.

What began as a personal record of arrival has grown into a broader reflection on rootedness, routine and the slow formation of identity in a place that was once foreign but now feels like home.

Occasionally, I return to portrait drawing - a much slower, rarer practice. Each of these pieces, whether in pencil or digital form, is a meditation on what it means to be fully present with another.

Maria Aleksanyan

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