Artist Statement

The global pandemic gave me, in the summer of 2020, the time and space to redefine my relationship with photography. Until then, I had worked mainly in portraiture, as a self-taught photographer. But I felt the need to show more of myself: How do I look at the world around me, and how might I capture that?

Each day, I walked with my camera through the dunes and along the sea. The beauty of my surroundings continues to amaze me: the colours, shapes, and lines of the dunes, the shifting light, and the sea that is never the same. A landscape can move me deeply.

During that period, I began to experiment with technique. I searched for a way to reach the essence and discovered that photographing out of focus, paradoxically, brought me closer to what truly held meaning for me.

This is how my first images of the sea emerged, and later also of the cherry blossom. In post-processing, I restore only contrast and colour, without Photoshop or AI. The simplicity of my process is a conscious choice; I want the image to arise directly from the moment itself.

A good photograph, however, elevates the moment: it makes it more magical, mysterious, or intense than it actually was, creating a new, unique world of its own.

These painterly, almost abstract images reveal what matters to me: colour, rhythm, harmony, clarity, and a touch of mystery.