Reverie is my longest project, sitting between two periods of my life and my photography. I became a professional photographer in 2014, driven by the urge to record what I saw. For years, my work was rooted in travel photography: real places, clear moments. Reverie still carries traces of that “pure travel” material, yet even the earliest images were already reaching beyond face-value description. At the time they felt risky, too “arty”, as if I was stepping outside what a photographer was supposed to do.
In the early 2020s my relationship with photography changed. The pandemic halted travel, and the war in Ukraine made direct documentation feel impossible. I needed another way to work and, in truth, a way to cope.
Reverie became that bridge. I shifted from photographing reality to photographing perception: emotions, symbols, dream logic, uncertain figures, and a different use of colour and light. The series now holds both past and present, suspended between what is real and what is imagined, and shaped by the slow transformation of memory.
2014-2025
