In a place I don’t belong to, a foreign domestic space, I select personal objects, rearrange them into a new space within the photograph. The act of placing and assembling the objects unfolds intuitively and experimentally in a manner that values simplicity, subtlety and minimalism and defies common sense. It’s a playful act that takes place behind the camera, an attempt to make the familiar unfamiliar and to unshackle the way we usually comprehend those objects, to instill life back into them. Thus mundane domestic objects gain a new meaning through photography while the domestic space slowly loses its roots in reality and grows into a space of imagination and fantasy. Through this process, I invent connections validated solely by photography and create surreal and imaginary situations. The photographic medium shifts from an act of documentary photography to a way of forging situations within the photographic space. Strangeness and chaos give place to a climate of silence, cleansing and inner peace.
My photography is about personal space, living space and surroundings of mine and those around me. I deal with architecture, interiors, the way people choose to live both in my professional and personal work.
Observation, contemplation, as well as dealing with natural light are an integral part of my work.
The photographic action that I use derives from traditional, direct photography, using a tripod that requires a long observation of a place and attention to details and presence.
The combination of the subject and the work method have led my work to earn depth of color, shape and light, profoundly relates to values i want to express such as simplicity, delicacy and cleanness inside the image.
I pay attention to the movement of the sun and the flow of the wind.
