Don’t show the crisis directly

I am preoccupied with how the personal perception of beauty connects to self-perception, the everyday, and my mental state.I am compiling a collection of images, objects, spaces, and situations—brands, people, and photographs—that evoke some kind of emotional response or even a certain impulse in me. These might include self-portraits, which I am too shy to take; fragments of interiors I sometimes wish to avoid; random details that make a day special; objects, memories, and visual associations that cause my brain chemistry to react from time to time. All of this together forms a personal archive—a subjective picture of the world where my «outside» becomes a way of articulating what is difficult to put into words, and my «inside» serves as the resource for those words.

Photography will naturally serve as the primary research tool. I want to explore self-portraiture, fashion photography, share daily observations, still-life imagery, the light achieved through film photography, favorite colors, and chance compositions. The selection and juxtaposition of images will play a crucial role—paired shots will gradually form a personal visual diary.

A photobook allows disparate images to coalesce into a unified system, where meaning arises not only within the photographs and myself, but also between the images, texts, and visual pairings.