Artist's Statement 

2019

The photography is an infinite universe without borders and boundaries for me.. I am drawn deeper into it by every day. 

I like taking photos of everything. The nature, things; life and still life..  Whatever creates or stirs a feeling...  

And I always loved archives.

These days, the year of 2019, it’s mainly portraits.

I find everyone beautiful, everybody attractive. It profoundly amazes and saddens me to witness how people don’t and cannot believe that they are beautiful; never have been beautiful, or no longer beautiful, not good enough.. 

Who gets to decide? Who has a say?

Do you have to look a certain way to be, feel or accepted beautiful? 

If that had been the case, the life, the world, art... everything would have been so boring.. I cannot imagine it and I don’t want to think of it, even picture it (yes, pun intended).

I like flaws endlessly.. What you call flaw is perhaps your mark. It makes you who you are, it's a part of the whole thing..  Hey, they belong to you.. Yours, yours only to celebrate!

The beauty doesn’t belong to a definition, age, a skin tone, certain height and weight..

Yes, the life, experiences, living, the journey wear us out, like things but these are also what gives us the taste, the distinguishing and individual beauty.

The beauty of the youth is amazing but the life on a face….. is just spectacular. 

You have a story to tell. That’s what it's all about. 

At some point, the connection between the eyes, heart and mind get lost, they get disconnected. How could you see just with the eyes? You need all of them to see. 

Shadowed by various things, people stop seeing the truth of life, their own truth.

You should never be afraid to look at yourself and love the person who you are at this moment in time. Not before, not in the future. 

It’s now, it’s here, it’s time.

Why do I love portraits? 

I am mesmerised with faces. I love the variety; how different each one is. 

I am drawn to the meaning, into the light in the eye.

I love reading each face. 

I can see what you cannot.

I am drawn to capturing that one moment where the door of a soul open up. Everything connects and catches up.. 

The heart, mind, senses.. 

Your truth, essence are visible. 

You feel, you remember what I already know about you.

And what you have always known.

Some people are not comfortable with their photos to be taken.

Let me show you how beautiful you are.

We’ll have a moment of truth. 

An moment of eternity.. 

I capture what I cannot keep. Neither of us can.

If your mind, your memory plays you, you’ll have it in there.