This is an ongoing documentary photographic project about the distance between seeing, knowing, and understanding.
I photograph the world as I encounter it, but detach what I see from the contexts that would normally make it legible. A place, a body, an object, a gesture: once photographed, each becomes available to interpretation. We search for clues. We want to know what happened, why the photograph was made, what connects one image to another, and ultimately what it all means.
But I am increasingly interested in what happens when these questions lead nowhere.
A photograph can prove that something was there, but it cannot prove what it meant. Everything that can be named, explained or made public belongs to a reality we attempt to share. Yet beneath it remains something inaccessible: the private experience of being there, of seeing, and of choosing to photograph. This is the secret.
I use the descriptive nature of documentary photography to question the very possibility of a shared reality. The more precisely a photograph describes what was visible, the more apparent the gap becomes between what can be seen and what can be known. We may look at the same image, recognise the same objects and agree on the same facts, while never arriving at the same understanding.
The work does not attempt to close this distance. It stays within it.
This world holds only secrets, never the truth.
