Between Composure and Vulnerability
I am a doctor and conceptual photographer whose work explores identity, emotional contradiction, and the distance between the self we present to the world and the self we keep private.
Photography entered my life as an escape, but it quickly became something more necessary: a space where emotions, questions, and visual ideas could exist without needing to be contained or explained.
Artist Statement
My work is not primarily concerned with recording what a person looks like. I am interested in what it feels like to inhabit a body, to maintain composure, and to carry parts of the self that remain unseen.
As a doctor, I spend much of my professional life observing the tension between outward stability and private vulnerability. People may appear calm, capable, and complete, while their internal experience is far more fragmented. That gap between appearance and reality is the point from which my images begin.
Self-portraiture allows me to examine this tension from within. Through multiplication, distortion, inversion, and disappearance, the body becomes both subject and material. A face divides, a figure turns, or an identity dissolves into fragments. The resulting images may appear surreal, but their emotional source is immediate and deeply human.
I also work with cyanotype, water–oil printing, and transparencies. Each process interrupts the certainty of the original photograph. Light, chemistry, resistant materials, and layered surfaces introduce chance and transformation. Cyanotype can move from its familiar deep blue to striking red-and-black prints on red paper; water and oil pull an image apart; transparencies allow several perceptions to occupy the same space.
Across these different processes, I return to the same questions: How much of a person can be seen at once? What remains hidden beneath the surface? And what happens when the image can no longer hold a single, stable identity?
Biography
Who I am, how I work, and where the masterclasses come from.
Education & CV
Training, exhibitions, publications, and awards.