I've had a camera in my hands since I was a child.
Then life happened, and I put it down. For a long time. Not really by choice, more by drift. Years pass, you forget what used to hold you, you get used to not looking anymore.
In 2024, I picked it up again.
And what came back wasn't just a hobby. It was a way of seeing.
What photography woke up
I think what I hadn't understood during all those years without a camera was just how much I had stopped looking. Not just framing, or searching for images. Really looking. The streets, the people, the light hitting a wall at 5pm, the silhouette of someone waiting.
It came back when I started photographing again. Not the other way around.
Photography didn't give me a new way of seeing. It woke up the one I had before, the one I had let fade without noticing. Once it came back, it didn't stay limited to the moments I had my camera. It became permanent. A way of being in the world, even with nothing in my hands.
That's why I keep going. Not for the images themselves, even though I love them. But for what they force me to see, to notice, not to let slip.
What I'm looking for
I photograph streets, light, and quiet moments. The kind that go unnoticed. The ones that pass without anyone seeing them.
My work sits at the intersection of documentary and fashion. Minimal editing. I barely touch the image after. Just what's there, as it was.
I think that's what I'm looking for, really. Keeping things as they were. Not embellishing them, not recomposing them. Just seeing them, and passing them on the way I saw them.
What it means today
Coming back to photography was more than returning to a passion. It became a way of finding myself again. A gentle discipline, one that doesn't ask for much. Go out, look, press the shutter. But it changes everything.
I walk differently now. I'm slower. I stop for no apparent reason. I take my time. And it's in that time that the images come.
If I had to sum up in one sentence why I photograph, I think it would be this : because it brought me back to seeing. And once you've started seeing again, you don't want to stop.