The Five Senses is a conceptual black-and-white photography series that explores how we connect with the world through taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell. Each image is designed to evoke more than what’s seen—using light, contrast, and gesture to create a visual experience that feels almost tactile.

Creative Direction

By removing colour, I focused the viewer's attention on emotion, texture, and detail, allowing each photo to stand as a sensory metaphor. The aim was not just to show, but to make the audience feel—inviting them to reflect on how our bodies interpret the world.

Process & Style

The series was shot during my photography studies, with each photo composed to represent a specific sense using minimal props, natural light, and raw expression. It’s a quiet, intimate meditation on presence and perception.

• Photography & concept by Tamires Segata [me].

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FIVE SENSES

Taste

[1/5]

“My first conversation in this country was with a barista who gave me donuts to welcome me. Since then, when I taste these donuts, I can experience that delightful moment. Food is completely attached to our feelings and when we can keep the flavour, well, that is the real magic”

- Me

Touch

[2/5]

“Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence”

- Eadweard Muybridge

Sight

[3/5]

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people”

- Annie Leibovitz

Sound

[4/5]

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks”

- Robert Frank

Smell

[5/5]

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety”

- Ansel Adams