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I document the fact that everything is gone forever.
I photograph disappearing cultures and the collective nostalgia of societies, their sense of loss and alienation, and their coping mechanisms with globalization. My interest is in the blind spots of societies.
I explore the search for coherence in a fragmented world. I seek to photograph the aesthetics of people – either displaced, forced out of their natural habitat or forced to consent with alien social structures, but before all – I focus on the individual in the context of a given society. The work that I do requires time and denial because I deny my right to individuality while studying a group of people and their milieu. But it breeds stories and a new face for every story I tell. It seems to me that people are perpetually defining culture, language and the self. I photograph the moment of parting from dysfunctional or lived out identities and the silence in decision making before the cutting and pasting of new characters and histories.
I would say I am an expert on uncertainty. I am a documentary photographer filming the ephemeral history of New Europe in a transitional period both politically and geographically. I don’t offer an evaluation of the changes; I try to document the effect they have on the people throughout the continent and how Europeans define themselves and the Others. I seek as many truths as possible.
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