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'yesterday, you loved me, everyday, I love myself,' is a collection of portraits captured over the course of one afternoon, featuring Ashleigh — a mixed British Caribbean woman born and bred in South West London, who self-identifies as a sex worker, an abuse survivor, as well as gay, working class, and autistic.

Whilst carrying an almost dream-like haze, the portraits shot in various areas of Ashleigh’s home — made in collaboration with stylist Roberta Chapman — explore the presence of pleasure and intimacy within the idiosyncrasies of self-love.

Introducing a certain of softness, they look to capture the nuance of Ashleigh’s reality through engagement with colour, texture, and mundane gesture, to affront stereotype and expectancy. Find the zine here at Village Books.