People are fascinating. Whether I look at the crowd or at one particular individual, at a friend or myself I see an amalgamation of dreams, desires, controversies, and insecurities, torn and lost between our pasts, presents and futures, ever-seeking the meaning that constantly eludes us, an ideal of happiness and an aspiration for something else, something that we don’t quite understand yet. Burdened by genetics, culture, religion, beliefs, folklore and the likes we get lost in our memories, swayed by our own perceptions but always hopeful for the potential futures that are inseparable from our pasts. And love – the abstract constant and ultimate unknown.

Observing people and their interactions is my favourite pastime. From the very beginning my photographic work has been concerned with the real meanings of these interactions that often remain unseen and the masks we use to hide behind – every portrait I’ve made is an attempt to photograph the true essence of a person. Photography to me is a process of revealing the truth which could be morbidly painful, incredibly beautiful, simply boring or all at once.

Although photography is still my main medium, in later years in search of deeper meanings and more complex concepts, my work has crossed into multimedia and I am finding myself creating artworks with unremarkable objects like wine corks, zippers, repurposed canvasses and using easily perishable materials like chalk and charcoal (Time vs Depression, 2024). All this reflected in the perpetual relationship between time and place (Opportunity Doors, 2023).