Noor – The Light Within is an intimate excavation of selfhood, emotion, and the fragile beauty of impermanence. The series takes its name from my own — Mahnoor, meaning “moonlight” — and reimagines light not as an external force, but as something internal, aching, and alive. It is both a reflection and a release: a quiet reckoning with all that lives within the shadows.
Each piece is crafted on rare, century-old expired light-sensitive paper — a medium as delicate and unpredictable as the emotions it seeks to hold. I work with natural, often perishable substances such as milk, egg, and honey — among others — which react with the paper through slow chemical processes. These elements are layered intuitively, forming chemigrams and cyanotypes that develop in complete solitude, in my personal darkroom, away from the precision of control. Each artwork is one-of-a-kind — never to be recreated, only revealed.
Tears, scratches, and stains are not mistakes, but part of the visual language of this work — echoes of inner scars and healing rituals. The process is personal and unrepeatable; each piece has its own secret recipe, its own emotional temperature, and its own rhythm of becoming. What emerges is not a photograph, but an emotional terrain — bruised, quiet, luminous.
Noor – The Light Within exists at the intersection of vulnerability and alchemy. It is an offering of light born from silence. A reminder that even what is broken can glow.