SELF

The "SELF" series main theme aims to reveal the symbolic portrait of the model. In this metaphysical approach of portraiture time and space belong to imagination rather than reality. Trough its timeless enigmatic pictures this photography seeks to represent what is beyond the physical appearance of reality, beyond the experience of the senses. The whole scene in the photograph is the rendering of the models’ unseen self. Artifacts, clothing, furniture and especially artworks are designed and crafted to symbolise the model's inner self. The solemn and detached atmosphere, the unbending poses, the static feeling, the classical yet evanescent tone, the specific aesthetic treatment are designed to reveal trough their symbolic meanings timeless archetypes. This symbolic photography is not here to depict the obvious but rather for the unseen to be revealed. I deeply believe that art should not be related to its own time, whether historical, ideological or social. Art must not take part in the ideologies of the moment, in social values ​​or in the history of his time, but must be outside of all this, going beyond these values ​​to rise above and asking questions of higher order ... Metaphysical questions.