Light Ritual
(all that interprets the light)
A memory from the age of 15, when photography became a hobby and an inseparable need for me, was when I saw a photograph (scan) of my brain with a tumor in it for the first time.
The results of the effect of light and the way it affects me, whether it is the physical failure versus the mechanical failure of the camera, or the mechanical failure in front of the truth of the photographed image, motivate me. Medical photographs from my personal archive inspire me to approach the sensor as the most sensitive and vulnerable part of the camera, trying to find within it the anchor of reality and clinging to it to achieve complete abstraction.
I choose to embrace the faults and mistakes of the medium, acting instinctively and conducting experiments in photography itself: photographing, projecting, re-photographing, enlarging, and distorting in order to discover new forms that will appear in direct perception – the new photographic truth.
Photographing the landscape presents an outward view, an emotional horizon disturbed by observing the medium.
The photographs consist of a process that moves on an axis between the concrete and the abstract. In the center of the space is a ritual performance image: I stand in front of the light, seeking to reveal reality through the repetition of the self-photographing ceremony. It is a mystical-transcendental ritual that demonstrates the spiritual relationship between the machine, observing both inside and outside the light – absorbing the image that reflects myself while I am alone with the machine.
The power of photography insists on capturing the true reality but simultaneously questions what truth really is, as it may only be a feeling.
