My journey in photography began during my school years. I documented the life around me with whatever cameras I had access to - a Zenit, a Lomo and a simple digital camera. I enjoyed documenting the events of my youth and travelling with a camera in my hands, deliberately moving away from a more overtly artistic approach to the image.
After studying at an Academy of Art, I gained a foundation in colour, composition and art history, which gradually became part of my visual language. Working on film sets also influenced the way I see. Over the years, I continued to experiment with different digital and film cameras, never seeing the choice of equipment as a limitation. For me, the camera remains a tool; what matters more is what I am trying to see and tell.
When I returned to photography, I placed people at the centre of my work. Through photography, I try to get closer to others - to observe, to look closely, to find points of connection and to understand what cannot always be expressed in words. I am interested in human life, social interaction and the ways people reveal themselves through the world around them.
For this reason, the material environment surrounding a person is just as important to me as the person themselves. Spaces, objects, things made by people, traces of everyday life and the connections between them become another language - one that is no less important than words or gestures. The possibility of remaining within reality while at the same time discovering something new in it is an important part of my process.
It is important for me to maintain this connection with the real world and not separate photography from what actually happened in front of the camera. At the same time, photography is never simply documentation for me. The act of looking inevitably becomes an interpretation - a way of getting closer to a person, seeing connections and offering the viewer their own way of reading the image.