Once, women created Nüshu — a script that existed between women.
 Not an official language. Their own.

NEW SHE PORT grew from this idea.

A LANGUAGE PASSED FROM WOMAN TO WOMAN

A language carried within women’s space, from generation to generation.

Its fine, elongated characters appeared on paper, fans, fabric and in embroidery — preserving stories of women’s lives, feelings and experience.

Here, photography also becomes a language — a way of bringing an image out of feeling, memory and inner experience and into the visible

NEW SHE PORT

The name exists somewhere between port and portrait.

A port is a place of passage.

Portrait comes from protrahere — “to draw out,” “to bring into the light.”

I am drawn to this idea of emergence — bringing an image outward, allowing it to become visible.

A passage from the inner world into the visible.

LEAVE SOMETHING BEHIND

During your session, we can make one photograph not only for you.

A photograph carrying a thought, a feeling, a gesture, a word — or simply an image — for a woman you may never meet.

Something passed from one woman to another.

This photograph becomes part of THE SECRET ROOM.