I Too Am Untranslatable

I Too Am Untranslatable explores how people reveal themselves while remaining fundamentally unknowable. Emerging from a period of personal upheaval that brought me to both New York and photography, the work traces a search for connection through encounters with strangers whose presence feels immediate, yet elusive. New York serves as the backdrop for this exploration. Its character, scale, density, and anonymity create conditions where intimacy and distance coexist. The city’s architecture, surfaces, weather, and light become active participants in the photographs, shaping how people appear, disappear, and are perceived. Working intuitively with timing and composition, I photograph figures blurred by motion, veiled by reflections, fragmented by framing, or dissolved into shadow and light. Ambiguity is intentional; visibility is partial by design. What began as an attempt to make sense of the world has gradually become an encounter with the limits of understanding. The strangers in these photographs, the city they inhabit, and the self behind the camera all remain irreducible. Rather than resolving these mysteries, I Too Am Untranslatable invites viewers to dwell within them, allowing ambiguity, connection, and curiosity to coexist.