My Five Stages of Grief

The Kübler-Ross model is widely recognized for outlining the five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance-as a framework for understanding loss. Yet, grief resists structure. It is deeply personal, often nonlinear, and shaped by the quiet, individual ways we learn to live with what is no longer ours.

My Five Stages of Grief is a photographic series that traces this intimate terrain. Comprising five images, the work emerges from a space of love and absence, vulnerability and resilience. It is not an attempt to define grief, but to sit with it—to acknowledge its weight, its persistence, and its quiet transformations.