A woman with glasses and dark hair, dressed in black, is sitting at a table with papers and a pen. She is resting her chin on her hand, fingers touching her face, and looking at the camera with a slight smile. Copyright Dasha Dare.

What Does It Take To Be You?

And what do images have to do with it?

These questions have been driving my work for the last ten years, across photography, coaching, speaking, and research.

I've come to believe that the images that made us have the power to set us free. Besides being a beautiful philosophical idea, this may well have a scientific explanation.

I hope that very soon we will see art and science come together in understanding what the image does to your experience of being you — and find a way to use it to make that experience better.

This is my dream. For you to enjoy being you. Just like I one day woke up finally enjoying being me.

Dasha Dare

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Big News

I was selected as one of 5 Evermay Future Fellows in 2026 to further develop my work on self-face recognition, memory reconsolidation, and the future of our relationship with the images of self.

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If Not The Image, Then What?

If we no longer use pictures of ourselves to signal to our brain "This is me", what will we use instead?


New piece on the future of self-recognition.

READ IT HERE