Photography
The Becoming is a separate longitudinal work that emerged during the production of Gazing Soft. The first book and documentary follow four adult professional dancers. Skin and Grace – Episode IIThe Becoming During our time at the Escuela Nacional de Ballet, another possibility emerged. We met senior students, sixteen and seventeen years old, whose training
A reflection on what happens when the human body resists the categories that contemporary culture expects it to occupy. The Semantic Void. (When the Body Has No Category) I printed Skin and Under in Italy, at Tipografia Sosso. The technicians handled the proofs — pages full of nudes — with the same ease they would
During a four-day shoot, something was said — aimed at the only woman in a group of eight nude male models. I wasn’t there when it started. By the time I arrived, the men had closed ranks. Against Juan, I later gathered. At dinner I asked. Got only careful vagueness. The matter was theirs to
I photograph bodies. But not the way that phrase usually lands. A body is never just a body. It arrives already inscribed — by the culture it grew up in, the labor it performed, the gender it was assigned or chose, the food it ate, the sun it worked under, the touch it was or
I work with the body.Not to provoke, not to decorate, but to stay close to something honest. Today I had a conversation that quietly reminded me why this matters to me.A model told me he admired my work, but that full nudity wasn’t something he felt comfortable with. I respected that immediately. A body is
Bored of Very Serious Photography? Nothing on your skin. A reflection on safety as an aesthetic in contemporary photography, and on the consequences of treating beauty with suspicion. When I look at much of the “in-vogue” contemporary photography, I don’t feel rejection. I feel boredom. A deep boredom—not born of any intolerance for the new,
SKIN, and Grace — Episode IGazing Soft Book and Film I arrived in Cuba intending to photograph five professional dancers, drawn to a grace I had previously known only through screens and fleeting digital fragments. Four ultimately became the subjects of this book and documentary. I wanted to photograph their bodies, of course—but more than
Archaeology of Future Ruins The Proto-Digital Proletariat Sometimes I think my models belong to a “proto-digital proletariat”: young men raised in a world where nudity is no longer taboo but currency, translated into tokens and likes on webcam platforms. A hyperconnected global underclass that has turned the body-image into its only capital in the ruthless
A Film? How the Idea Began The idea didn’t come from a storyboard or a pitch — it grew in the quiet spaces between photographs. The moments no one plans for. During shoots, I began noticing the in-between: the meals crowded around a table, the way a voice softened on the porch at dusk, the
A meditation on the unspoken power struggle between photographer and model, exploring how attraction, trust, and control shape the relationship between photographer and model during the making of a portrait. This is not just about photography. It is about the quiet, consensual theft that happens when one person agrees to be seen by another. Written
