I love to freeze the moment... To capture something fleeting, something that 
will never happen in quite the same way again.
Each photo has a story to tell, a singular fragment of time held still. Through my lens, I seek not just to document, but to preserve the unrepeatable. I like to call it Stillness in Motion.

I was a child when I got my first camera, a film camera with automatic settings, and I was instantly absorbed by it. Soon after, I got a camera with manual controls. There was always something magical about the moment my mother returned from the store with the developed photographs. You never know how many of them were coming good, and surprisely some were looking crazy amazing, with unexpected reflections.



Later I bought my first digital camera, a Nikon. I got into the arts school, where I studied analogic and digital photography. After I at the university, I got the chance to further develop my photographic skills. Not only technically, but also visually and conceptually.

I clearly remember a moment with one of my teachers. He was looking at my photos, and he said something I will never forger: They look amazing! But everyone could have taken them. It felt so bad to receive such a feedback, but it changed the way I saw photography forever. So I went back out with my camera, and I did something totally different. I began talking to strangers, making them confortable, and photographing them. My teacher’s comment changed the way I started looking through my viewfinder. I don’t take just take photo, I no longer just take photographs, I also tell stories.



Today, I have a growing collection of both digital and analog cameras, and I continue to experiment with different lenses, places, and light—always chasing that fleeting moment worth holding onto.

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