Photo by Junho
Photo by Coby
Photo by YJ
Photo by Bee
Photo by Krystal
Photo by Yujin
Photo by Wally
Photo by Leo
We move through life with moments we await—
some we long for,
and others we hope will never come.
Yet whatever the feeling, D-Day always arrives,
crossing the boundaries of tomorrow and the day after.
The D-Day Project began from a desire to honor those seemingly ordinary days that quietly pass us by—
to remember them more vividly,
to hold them as something a little more special.
A D-Day can be something I anticipate,
or a day that belongs to someone else entirely.
As I chose each date and watched the numbers count down,
I found myself wanting to share that passage of time with others.
So I documented D-Days with people in many different ways:
sometimes with family who were waiting alongside me,
other times trusting the moment to brief encounters and strangers.
Through this project, I hoped not only to record time,
but to share it—
to let my days intertwine with the days of others,
if only for a moment.
D-Day Project #2: End of the Semester was a daily practice that began one week before the semester ended and continued through D-Day itself. Each day, I asked a person in front of me—someone I was seeing in that moment—to take a single photograph of me. They could choose the framing and the pose. The rule was simple: one day, one image, one brief exchange.
The project was created to treat passing encounters as something worth holding onto—to communicate through the camera with people I might otherwise only pass by, and to give more weight to the fleeting seconds that disappear into routine. Over time, the countdown became shared: not only my waiting, but the presence of others folded into it.
On the day of the final critique, I installed the photographs from D–7 through D–1 on the wall. Then I stepped forward with a whiteboard marked “D-Day,” standing in front of the installation as the final image of the series. To record that last moment, I stood again in front of the camera—this time with my classmates and professor—so the final day could be witnessed and held together.
Photo with Aimée
Photo with Fin
Photo with Grecia
Photo with Chelsea
Photo with Yilin
Photo with Leonard