I started taking photos as a way to make sense of the world and ended up finding pieces of myself I didn’t know were missing. Each project is a step deeper into honesty, connection, and seeing what’s usually overlooked.

My personal photography projects explore the quiet intensity of everyday life, fragments, moods, and moments that often go unseen. Rooted in a documentary approach but driven by emotional truth, these bodies of work examine place, identity, memory, and the invisible undercurrents that shape how we live and connect. Whether capturing the stillness of a rainy city street or the charged atmosphere of a fading coastal town, I’m drawn to the edges of things, what’s unsaid, in-between, or half-forgotten.

These projects are where I experiment, reflect, and dig deeper into the visual language that guides all of my work. This is where I allow myself to wander, and to follow whatever catches the light.

My work is shaped by a mix of documentary precision and psychological atmosphere. I’m influenced by Martin Parr’s ability to use the everyday as evidence: colour, class, taste, and the strange theatre of public life, while still making images that feel direct and unvarnished.

Stephen Shore’s clarity and formal restraint have also been foundational for me: the way an ordinary street, a meal, or a motel room can become a record of place, time, and quiet American mythology through attention to light, structure, and surface.

Alongside those documentary lineages, I’m drawn to Edward Hopper’s sense of suspended time with his rooms, streets, and figures charged with loneliness, anticipation, and the emotional weight of silence. That tension between what is seen and what is felt runs through my portrait and place-based work.

The Surrealists sharpen this further. Man Ray’s experimentation and dislocation, Dalí’s dream logic, and Max Ernst’s collage sensibility all offer ways to visualise what can’t easily be said: memory, dissociation, desire, and the unconscious.

Taken together, these influences guide me toward images that operate on two levels at once, documentary on the surface, and psychologically loaded underneath, using the real world as a stage for what is often hidden.