Through a fractured mirror, I document a universal law. The periphery always permeates the center. Architecture yields to nature. Noise shifts into silence.
The project draws upon experiences living on the hyper-marginal outskirts of a Siberian city and on journalistic assignments spanning environments from the Russian Arctic to Indian slums. The overarching theme of these territories is the periphery’s capacity to penetrate the center, blurring the boundary between the marginal and what is traditionally considered central. This same principle underpins the project’s optical framework.
I capture images through a personal lens, assembled from rectangular fragments. In the fissures of the reflection, architecture loses its dominant presence—nature seeps into the built environment, rendering it ephemeral and porous. The abundance of mirrored shards creates an effect of visual noise that dissolves into silence: the image of the place disintegrates, and the viewer loses their bearings.
This experience is an invitation to inhabit the contradictions of a territory where periphery and center do not oppose each other, but instead maintain a constant proximity, forming a hybrid reality. The project evolved from sustained presence in these marginal locations. Here, photography is not an optic of admiration, but a tool for observing how the peripheral becomes inseparable from the whole.
The project includes eight 60×60 cm photographs, with paired exhibition assumed, as shown above.
