Sosina Mengistu's Self-Portrait Project Spans Five Years of Pandemic and War

Sosina Mengistu's self-portrait series So I See Me started in 2020 when she was stranded for eight months in Bahir Dar during Covid travel restrictions, unable to return home to Asosa. The project, still ongoing, uses the camera to document her own experience of suspension and uncertainty, and connects that to the wider anxiety of a generation. The title carries a double meaning: the act of looking at herself, and a phonetic echo of her name.