My work begins with the act of looking, but it rarely ends with what is seen directly. I am interested in the moment when perception becomes unstable: when a face, a place, or a gesture remains in memory not as an image, but as a construction.

For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to simplification – not as a loss of detail, but as a way of exposing what is essential. I often reduce forms, rearrange them, and allow them to exist between recognition and uncertainty. In this sense, my practice is less concerned with faithful representation than with the quiet distortions created by memory.

The presented series consists of cyanotype portraits of people I encountered only briefly and never photographed. Each figure is built from places connected to that person: streets, crossings, fragments of architecture, remembered colours, and small gestures. I treat memory not as an archive, but as material – imprecise, selective, and strangely persistent.

As Minor White wrote: “One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.” This sentence closely reflects the logic of the series, where the portrait is not taken from the body, but from the trace it leaves behind.