Jacob Sirokman
Introversion
Reaching
Misc Work
In my Reaching (2025) series, I utilize slow shutter speed, multiple flashes, and self portrait photography to explore ideas relating to desire, liminality, and transformation. Capturing myself in these photographs, I reach for myself, communicating a desire for closeness and transformation. I combine these ideas by casting myself as both lover and beloved, as both subject and object of desire, resulting in an ambiguous narrative about intimacy, personal and interpersonal transformation, and relationships. In this series, I use a slow shutter speed and multiple flashes to create layered compositions with my poses during the long exposure time. The result of this is a visual dissolution of boundaries between my selves in the series, displaying the ways in which boundaries are interacted with in experiences relating to these concepts.