In The Encounter, Savi, a self-taught photographer with a focus on women’s experiences in the more traditional parts of the Middle East, turns her lens toward the quiet transformation of the body after motherhood.
In a culture where womanhood is intertwined with beauty, silence, and restraint, her portraits move with tenderness and empathy, tracing the fragile distance between denial and acceptance, loss and rediscovery.
Through her work, Savi also reflects on the lack of awareness many women face before these transformations — an experience that, in the absence of open dialogue or education, often arrives as something sudden and painful.
For her, these images are not only a record of the body but also an attempt to break the cycle of silence and pass awareness to the generations to come.
Each photograph becomes a dialogue between the old and new self — an intimate study of change, time, and resilience.
I believe that our voices, no matter how far apart, can meet through art.
