Gaining ground is about young women who are slowly starting to reconnect with their bodies and themselves after suffering from an eating disorder. The pictures are a result of long discussions with the subjects; as such, the connections I made with these young women form an important aspect of this work. The strength that they put into their daily struggle with themselves particularly impressed me. Under constant pressure, they move between two extremes: freshly gained self-confidence and recurrent self-loathing; happiness with their attractiveness and dismay with their looks; outward constructive action and inward destructive aggression.