Fuubutsushi
There is a word in Japanese that conveys memories and anticipations of the coming season.
And there is a place I don’t really know where I keep coming back to. It’s in eastern Kyushu, Japan. These are my “fuubutsushis”.
Homelands
A three-part photographic series
exploring the different geographies that make my life experience.
Death of a Rabbit
This is a land of barren landscapes laying under a scorching sun, of indistinguishable spaces and roads going nowhere. It’s a place for obscure presences and omens bringing disquiet into the fabric of the everyday.
Here is where a rabbit dies.
After the Quake
Nepal is still reeling from the powerful earthquake of 2015.
Tourism, a major player for the economy, is bringing benefits to those involved in the sector but also downsides, such as increased commodity prices impacting those living below the poverty line and loss of natural as well as cultural heritage.
I have spent a month traveling through the Himalayas, a relatively short time for such a complex topography. These are my visual notes, observations and encounters from a country trying to get back on its feet.
Land of Plenty
Building something out of nothing.
This project is a the result of a number of trips to Doha, Qatar. It is about class divisions in the surreal surroundings of a city under constant construction.
Agrypnia
Athens: A city surrounded by hills, covered with light and engulfed by a constant economic crisis, sleepily moving through the 21st century.
The Granary
An epiphanic journey through nationalism, religion, economic crisis and a glorious past in Ukraine.
Everything In Its Right Place
There is an old man in a colourful uniform standing under a traffic light. When the light is red he stops people from crossing, when it’s green he invites them to move on. His function mirrors that of the object above his head.
Japan shameless spatial compositions and its inhabitants are the starting points of my reflection on a very structured society where everything is in its right place.
This is about sense of belonging, homogenisation and isolation.
For Lack of Better Places
Adaptation and survival when space is a luxury.
A visual ode to alternative and unintended uses of urban spaces and non-places in Hong Kong.
Water In The Desert
A journey through the Silk Road on the way to a missing sea: A series about water, power and deceptive appearances in Uzbekistan.
Postmodernity
Incapacity of functioning in any linear or autonomous state, chaotic, multinodal, post suburban and eclectic.
Messy urbanism in the 21st century megalopolis.