As It Was draws from a decade of film photography by Dani Martine Arama. Working without intervention and editing with restraint, Martine approaches the camera as an act of pure witnessing—a discipline of presence. The images are unadorned, formally minimal, and deeply intimate, rendered luminous through an intuitive command of natural light and analog process. Autobiographical in origin, they resist narrative closure, functioning instead as open portals that ask to be inhabited rather than explained.
