Artist Statement

I am a former curator and exhibition producer, with over 15 years in the cultural field, shaping narratives through objects, images, and experiences. Photography has always been a constant — not just a medium, but a way of thinking and seeing. It has accompanied me for nearly 35 years.

While my professional practice often focused on photojournalistic subjects such as migration and climate change, my personal fascination has always been with abstract, experimental, and portrait photography — the most challenging discipline, where connection and presence meet in a fleeting exchange.

The Unfold series is, in its way, also portraiture. The subjects are quieter, more patient with me. Over time, my work has distilled into a quiet, deliberate practice: an exploration of impermanence, the perfection within imperfection, and the subtle transitions that mark all living things.

Unfold is the result of that practice. It is not about the grand gesture of a perfect bloom, but about the quieter, more ambiguous moments — blooms, or decay, or something in between. Each image fixes a point in a process that cannot be fixed, holding a fragment of a whole we can never fully keep.

About the Series — Unfold

Unfold is a curated sequence of floral portraits, chosen not for rarity or flawlessness, but for the way they inhabit a transient state. These are blooms mid-process — in ascent, at their height, or just beyond it — moments that are both emergence and retreat.

Each flower in the series carries its own story — shaped by its origins, the way it grows, the rhythm of its bloom, and the quiet work of seeding what comes next. Some reveal rare traits or hidden adaptations that deepen the viewer’s understanding of the moment captured. These intricacies do more than identify the flower; they enrich the photograph, turning it from an image into a fragment of a larger, living narrative.

The series avoids chronology. There is no tidy arc from bud to wither, only a constellation of moments, each flower a self-contained emblem of the full cycle. Together, they speak to the beauty of impermanence, the resilience within fragility, and the quiet power of what exists only for a while.