We don’t breathe. The cities we live in, confine us, exclude us. The large number of buildings and the crowds, have the power to pressure us and shrink us. As accidental and powerless units, we can’t distinguish our position that would belong only to us. Frequently, we damn the cities we live in.
We enjoy. If we look out of our window, the city’s image will charm us. Designed by people and destined for people, in the city, every moment, thousands of stories and numerous opportunities unfold. Especially at night, its power protects us, enable us, and sometimes we feel –as the city is the place of our childhood – it is rocking us to sleep.
We can’t live elsewhere. Nature, no matter how close it is to the city, in fact it is always far. This elusion brings us closer to the urban space. It is certain that nobody can hide from nature, no man, no city. What else can signify our embarrassment in front of nature’s silence and its unexpected matters?
Where exactly are we in the city? The center slips away from us. We are always next to it, in it and yet out of it. We are trying to create a place of protection and creation. A desert surrounded by high buildings where we will be nude, lonely and yet multiplied. This concentration allows some people to float over the city, and become more powerful and purer than it.
We are waiting. I always place my human models in a waiting position. With the help of digital processing I wish to create a space of tension, of silence, yet of anticipation between the nude body and the over structured, powerful city. In my images the lonely man is resting, observing, hiding, multiplying, and floating. The city lights are reflected very clearly on the woman’s body. A sensual and intense body that knows what expectance and fulfillment signify.
The main part of my photographic work has to do with the relationship between human being and space. Traveling around the world I am searching for places and faces that afterwards will be a part of a new image. What interests me is the recreation of a new visual reality, which are places of our meetings and farewells .
