I once crawled through a pitch-black basement searching for a staircase up to rooms with daylight. There was nothing in sight but a ripped-apart Barbie doll, and a baby’s chew toy; both objects lit by the narrow shaft I went through to get in. The uncertainty of whom or what might be hiding in the darkness makes my heart race in a very familiar way. It is my reality, but it is invisible, unless it is photographed"

To achieve the movement and dual imaging effect, Niemi uses a particular method. "The photographs are taken with a Hasselblad camera loaded with medium format negative film. The movement and dual-imaging is made possible with a long exposure, it varies from around five to twenty-five seconds. Some of the effects, such as disappearing body parts, have also to do with were the light source is coming from, and lightness or darkness in the clothes and backgrounds. But they are all one exposure, one moment," she says.