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reflections · August 13, 2026 · en

Characters

I never really had the urge to photograph people. I don't want to be a voyeur; I don't dare to ask; I don't want to shoot unasked; I don't want posed pictures — blah blah blah — plenty of good excuses not to.

And still, there were situations where 1) there was no getting around the people, and 2) the people themselves became so stylised into an art object within the situation that it was less about photographing a person than about the scene.

And so a rather special series of characters came together — each one so singular that, together, they too make up a sound of the world…

A young man in a cap and shades, arms crossed
A skier with goggles and skis on a snowy ridge
A fisherman by the lake, his back to the camera
A figure tending a bonfire at night
Someone perched high in a spreading tree
A young man drinking from a glass, in black and white
A self-portrait in a sunlit window, lens flare
A hatted figure silhouetted against the sun through a tree
A portrait under purple light at a party
People crossing an old stone bridge, seen from above
A figure silhouetted on a bare rock ridge
A man leaning on stone stairs, a long shadow beside him
A face below an old stone window
An old woman at her sewing machine, a man photographing her
A blurred figure among the trees, in black and white
A power pole standing over ruined stone houses
A man in a bright kitchen, sunglasses on
A figure inside a weathered wooden barn
A backyard scene — someone at practice, a dog nearby
A groom having his bow tie fixed
A bride and groom in a quiet moment
A wedding crowd under a blazing sun
A figure in costume, indoors
People at a bar, bathed in purple light
A bearded man in a straw hat, checking his phone
❍get in front of the

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