Photographer Melanie Issaka made her series Locating the Personal in total darkness in her bedroom. Her self-portraits are photograms, a camera-less way of making images. She lay on sensitised photographic paper and struck poses, recording moments away from the world. Issaka , who was born in Ghana and lives in London, is fascinated by what it means to be black, British and female. I ask questions about my place in the wo
