Seeing before understanding

I am a photographer and filmmaker in Berlin.

My work moves between photography, film, text and inner monologue. I am interested not only in how a person looks, but in what lies inside a gaze, a gesture, a quiet second.

Photography as narration

For me photography is not a plain record of reality. It is a way of making inner states visible: longing, estrangement, closeness, memory, uncertainty, or the feeling of never quite arriving.

I often work with people, places and small situations that look ordinary at first sight. That is exactly where I look for a second layer — an atmosphere that lies between things.

A cinematic image

My images are often composed like scenes from a film: in light, movement, rhythm, direction of gaze and pause. An image should not merely be beautiful — it should carry a story.

I am drawn to moments in which something stays unspoken: a glance to the side, a body in a room, a person at a window, a figure in the city. Those in-between spaces are the actual place of my work.

Text and image

Alongside photography I write poetic texts that accompany my visual worlds. They are not descriptions of the images but extensions of them: fragments of thought, memory and states.

The combination of text and image produces a form of telling of its own — somewhere between photo essay, film still and literary monologue.

Where the work is going

I am developing my own visual language: melancholic, cinematic and emotional, but precise. My works circle around how people see one another, how memory comes about, and how much of reality is shaped by our own perception.

I want to make images that do not explain everything at once but keep resonating — images in which you feel something before you understand it.

This is the English version of my statement. Deutsche Originalfassung →