Nora’s Losing Identity series (2021-present) captures individuals in domestic scenes or snapshots of life on Yangon’s streets. Yet she erased individuals’ faces using opaque applications of the color red. In the photos selected for this exhibition, Nora sourced old photos, as if ripped from family albums, and, as if sanitizing past lives, erased the individual identities contained within each. Commenting on the loss of personal freedom, her altered images depict the gradual erosion of freedom of expression under the military government. Each application of red color represented the loss of freedoms gained following the 2011 transition from the Than Shwe government to a civilian-military government; the February 2021 coup d’état reverted life to the pre-2011 era’s constraints on behaviour.