shoccara marcus moved from brooklyn , ny to atlanta , ga in 2011 after her father was diagnosed with cancer .
she returned to her georgia childhood home after living more than a decade away on her own .
a dancer since she was four years old , she documents the transition in photo project , choreographing my past .
the project is about the complexity of family dynamics as she expresses her feelings of isolation while trying to cope with her family remembering her as a little girl and refusing to accept the woman she has become .