presence

analog photography

2020 - ongoing

This project explores the human tendency to understand the world from a human-centred perspective, and what becomes possible when that position is temporarily displaced. People, animals, landscapes, reflections and traces within the photographic image appear as different forms of presence, without one becoming the centre through which the others are understood. The photographs bring together living beings, natural elements and fragments of their surroundings without establishing a fixed hierarchy between them. A person can become part of a landscape, an animal can occupy the space traditionally given to a portrait, while a rock, a body of water or a reflection can hold the same visual weight. What connects these images is not a shared narrative, but an attempt to consider the world as something that exists beyond its immediate meaning or function for humans. Reflections introduce another layer to this relationship. They create images that are simultaneously present and absent, making it possible to question where the photographed world ends and its representation begins. In this uncertainty, photography becomes less a way of confirming what is real than a way of opening different possibilities of seeing. The work considers the limits of human understanding in relation to other forms of life and the natural environment. It does not attempt to speak for animals or nature, nor to translate them into human terms. Instead, it leaves space for uncertainty and for the possibility that the world contains forms of existence that remain outside our ability to fully comprehend them. All photographs are black-and-white analog images. The absence of colour places emphasis on form, texture, light and spatial relationships, creating a common visual language between otherwise different subjects. The material process of photography is also allowed to remain visible: unintended traces appearing during development become part of some images, introducing the physical act of making the photograph as another form of presence. Rather than asking what deserves our attention, the project questions why human experience so often becomes the measure through which everything else is understood. People, animals, landscapes, reflections and material traces are allowed to coexist without being reduced to a single perspective. The photographs become a space in which different forms of presence can exist without requiring a hierarchy between them.

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