New York: First Light is a series made at the very start of my photography journey, when everything felt new, uncertain, and alive.

Wandering New York with a camera I barely knew how to use, I found something I hadn’t felt in a long time: clarity through looking.

These images aren’t polished, and they don’t need to be. They carry the early rhythm of learning: uneven, instinctive, full of questions. But even then, I was chasing something real: faces in passing, light cutting across sidewalks, the quiet theatre of the street. This was where I first realised photography could be a way of seeing myself and a way of coming back.