Absentee – Attendee

From the very beginning of my photographic journey, I have explored my habitats with a clear, defined goal – to find new, interesting locations that could become a worthy backdrop for a good portrait. But this time I changed my method and focus.

I strive to move from a practice that has become so strongly accustomed, based on emotional personal contact with a model, to an endless documentation of a depersonalized landscape that is constantly transforming due to the influence of the Anthropocene, leaving traces of its previous incarnations in plain sight. For this, I turned to flanery as a kind of meditation, the desire to explore and contemplate the most unobvious places and views. During my wanderings, the landscape became a living character, changing its appearance depending on the season.

All the people who appear in it were deliberately filmed as much as possible from afar, drowning in the textures of nature. The absence of a person in the frame is replaced by his direct presence in nature, more overwhelming. The feeling of impossibility to prevent chaos makes me want to endlessly document what has not yet been destroyed and has not succumbed to oblivion. Having given the image in aestheticism and romanticism, I want to make the viewer think: how much delight does the image of a landscape bring and what can I give it in return?