Hold Fast (2018–2025) is a long-form photographic study of touch, transience, and the fragile gestures that keep life from slipping away.

Each image holds a kind of breath — the pause between holding on and letting go. Through gesture, blur, and atmosphere, the series explores how the body remembers: a hand clutching a flower, a shoulder bearing a daisy, a figure dissolving into shadow or water.

Working with natural light and instinctive timing, Rue Kruger translates domestic and dreamlike moments into visual meditations on care.

Recurring motifs — hands, feathers, skin, bloom — form a language of tenderness and resilience. In this space, touch becomes both anchor and release; light both witness and healer.

Hold Fast belongs to Kruger’s ongoing dialogue between motherhood, mortality, and the act of seeing — a way of recording what resists vanishing.