In Someone, Jasmine Clarke offers a deeply personal and poetic exploration of the coastal town of Simone, Senegal—an intimate geography where the currents of memory and migration converge.
Created between 2019 and early 2020, the series positions Clarke not just as an observer, but as a sensitive interlocutor with place. The photographs unfold like half-remembered dreams, teetering between documentary precision and lyrical abstraction. Light and shadow become both subject and metaphor, evoking the ephemeral nature of identity as it moves across histories and homelands.
Clarke’s lens filters Simone through a diasporic gaze, one shaped by her own background and sensibility. The work doesn’t claim to define or fully portray the town; rather, it acknowledges the impossibility of capturing a place in totality, offering instead fragments—glimpses—that evoke more than they explain. In doing so, Someone challenges the viewer to inhabit the liminal, the in-between, and to question how memory and belonging are both constructed and undone in transit. Someone aligns with Clarke’s broader practice—where family history, the spectral traces of the past, and the photographic medium coalesce into a quiet, enduring resonance.
