What Cannot Be Said

• Photographer
  Hiroaki Shima
• Photo Date
  2025.4.27

This portrait series explores silence, memory, and the traces of emotional absence through the figure of a woman holding withered flowers. Each image captures a moment of stillness—her back turned, her gaze withdrawn, or her eyes obscured—asking what remains when words are no longer spoken. Rather than depicting identity through facial expression, these portraits present the invisible: loss, introspection, and what cannot be shown. The flowers, long past their bloom, serve not as decoration, but as fragments of a story withheld.