About

For me, photography is a way to preserve reality, beauty, and emotion as they truly are. I pay attention to small nuances: the way a person smiles, moves, gets shy, and interacts with the space around them and with other people. In couple and family sessions, I’m especially drawn to closeness — the way love and warmth show up in small gestures, glances, and accidental movements. In individual portraits, I’m not interested in fitting someone into a familiar visual template, but in helping them relax and see their own uniqueness.

I’m drawn to a documentary approach because it gives people freedom. When someone isn’t constrained by rigid posing, they open up more easily, start to play, be silly, and simply be themselves — and that’s when images with real emotional weight begin to appear.

I work with both digital and film. Digital gives me flexibility and the ability to catch fleeting moments, while film teaches a different kind of attention: each frame becomes more valuable, more intentional. I love that combination — freedom and focus, spontaneity and care for the moment.

A lot of the way I see photography comes from something deeply personal: I grew up looking through my mother’s photo album, filled with portraits, reportage images, candid snapshots, and posed photographs. Looking through it, I could clearly feel who she was, how she lived, what interested her in different periods of her life, and how she looked at the world. Maybe that’s why, for me, photography has always been a little more than just beautiful angles. It’s memory, a record of life and the passage of time, and sometimes also a way to see yourself more gently, more honestly, and with greater acceptance.

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