Visual arts
“The relationship between what we see and what we know is never clear. Every evening we see the sun setting. We know that the Earth is moving away from it. However, knowledge, explanation, never quite fit with vision.”
-John Berger
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44 days
I’ve learned to observe more, to stay calm, to stop chasing the perfect image. Instead, I now observe until the scene accepts me. I also learned to stop thinking and simply feel. I unlearned the urgency of shooting just for the sake of shooting.
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No room for nostalgia
Photographs are like freezing a moment. For me, that’s the most beautiful thing about life: you never return to that exact moment twice, but through a photograph you can get close to the feeling you experienced then.
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Creature of the world
I think that as a designer I'm constantly overthinking how things should look, always trying to make them look as beautiful and cool as possible. But my car collection has been intuitive, easy, and accidental.
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Monday
The images and visual productions I have made over the past year have focused on portraying violence through memory. They seek to depict, between landscapes and archives, a construction of identity shaped within a brutal environment.
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We do it for punk
Music inspires me deeply, listening to it and making it. I often think I don’t know which would be harder: losing my hearing or my sight. But it comforts me to know that if I went blind, I could still make music, and if I went deaf, I could still draw.
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Escaping power
As contemporary photographers, I think we have to deeply interrogate our role in this image-world that is accelerating at what seems to be an unstoppable pace, and reflect on why the camera and photography are so tightly bound to capital and to the forces that are destroying this planet.
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Float better
I’ve been calibrating my personal process; it will never be ideal, because that would take the fun out of it, but I’ve learned to let go of ideas that used to paralyze me or keep me from taking the next step. It’s still difficult to exhibit, to choose, to think, to process. I don’t think it will ever stop being difficult; I just dare a little more each time.
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Death metal ballad
This project is a photo essay, a performance, a diary… The idea of a death metal ballad feels very powerful to me, something harsh yet soft at the same time. If it had a soundtrack, it would be made by my band, ATTENTION WHORES.
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New ways
I have been working on an organic and/or exaggerated aesthetic in food: gloss, highlights, and reflections. I learned to play with timing, lighting, and different situations, as well as to understand the right moments to control and work with precise shutter speeds.
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Reaching for the sun
As I transitioned from other media toward photography as the central axis of my practice, I learned to follow my instincts more closely and to listen carefully to the signals of my own body and mind. It was also a process of unlearning: letting go of certain external expectations and trusting more in my personal way of creating and observing.
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Born and raised
I’ve learned to be patient with the creative process. Even though a photograph may seem instantaneous, behind it there is an endless accumulation of emotions, decisions, and time. Going out with a camera is not always as easy as it seems; it requires inspiration and confidence.
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Wings of a dove
I always try to look for a story in photos. I really like pictures where you can see a part of documenting, personality, reflection, emotions. Now I’d like to capture life as it is — to try not to push too much.
