Close Encounters

In “Close Encounters”, I thrust the viewer into the urban world as I experience it: a labyrinth of fragments, charged with latent possibility and yet resistant to deciphering. I am not interested in objectivity or description; I am interested in the energy the photographs convey: the compulsive feeling of being unable to look away from something you can't fully read, paired with the sense that something unexpected, possibly mysterious, is about to happen. 
When photographing, I get close, so close that I could touch people if I stretched out my arm – not to intrude, but to reveal the energy I feel. I think of the urban fragments as quanta of energy, akin to particles in quantum mechanics. At this immediate, atomic scale, I see my photographs as existing in a state where the act of looking perpetually shifts: they can be read as content or felt as pure energy, but never both at the same time. Paradoxically, the closer I get, the less we know. In “Close Encounters”, I seek to challenge the documentary assumptions and visual conventions of Street Photography. I see the street as a vehicle through which to express my subjective experience of urban space. Drawing inspiration from Bauhaus graphic design, I aim to establish a bold, declarative visual language that maximises the flow of energy within the frame, moving beyond purely descriptive representation. Rather than authoritative single images, I present this body of work as associative, impermanent clusters, where the relationships between images elevate the collective energy.