The subject of her lens today was an elderly woman for her "Ode to the Crone" project. As Nikita invited her to breathe—a ritual she performed as much for herself as for her subjects—the woman let out a long, shaky exhale. In that breath, the tension of decades seemed to dissolve. Nikita pressed the shutter. The mechanical click of her vintage Polaroid was the only sound in the quiet air.
: She heavily utilizes Polaroid, 35mm film, and Super 8mm video to achieve a "dreamy, filtered" aesthetic. Nikita Gross
The camera in Nikita’s hands felt less like a tool and more like an extension of her own nervous system. Standing in the middle of a sun-drenched field in Cincinnati, she waited for the exact moment the light would soften—that fleeting second where the world looked less like a place and more like a memory. The subject of her lens today was an