How We See

In the 21st century, we rarely experience culture and beauty directly. We photograph landmarks before truly looking at them, encounter masterpieces through phone screens, consume landscapes as images, and carry fragments of places home as souvenirs. How We See explores the ways contemporary tourism and everyday life reshape our relationship with cultural icons, art, and the world around us. Across Paris, Florence, and the Italian countryside, the photographs reveal moments in which observation is constantly mediated—by cameras, smartphones, newspapers, replicas, or collective rituals of seeing. Rather than criticizing technology, the series reflects on a quieter question: when every experience can be documented, shared, or reproduced, what does it mean to truly see? Together, the images ask whether we still experience culture - or increasingly consume representations of it.