The picture shows a dark silhouette silhouetted against a dirty concrete wall and will disappear behind a shiny wall of reflections.
In the reflective surface, fragments of the city slide on top of each other: old buildings and new facades. This layering makes the picture more than a visual game. It is an echo of how the city itself lives.
The city, too, is made up of layers that barely touch. Young people radiating speed and energy, older people following their own rhythms, people born and raised here, and newcomers trying to find their place.
The silhouette shape is a symbol of everyone who is part of this urban fabric and seeks their way in it. The reflections hold that world in thin, overlapping planes, as if the city is constantly redrawing itself.
Through this construction, the photograph shows that a city never consists of one story, but of many that are simultaneously visibly and invisibly intertwined.
I roam the streets with a simple goal: to chase the light and notice what most people pass by. My work grows out of small moments that hold quiet beauty and that shape the rhythm of a city. Photography gives me a way to share these moments. I hope that.. Read more…