Cold Intimacy

Cold Intimacy explores the distance between what we see of people and what they carry within. Through ordinary gestures, fleeting encounters, and traces of absence, the photographs reveal the unseen weight of everyday life.

I have always been drawn to the distance between what we see of people and what they might be carrying within themselves.

Perspective

A person staring out at the sea, a body leaning forward in an underground station, a pair of worn hands resting together. These are ordinary moments, yet I find something unsettling in their stillness. A gesture can suggest exhaustion, resistance, longing, or an entire history we will never know. Sometimes, even an empty chair or a shirt left hanging can hold the weight of someone's presence.

Cold Intimacy

Cold Intimacy is my way of observing these invisible worlds. I am interested in the quiet tension between the external world people move through and the private realities they carry with them. The smallest gestures can become acts of defiance, while familiar objects and spaces can suggest absence, attachment, or a life suspended between moments.

Chapters

Moving between colour and black and white, public and private spaces, I photograph what draws my attention without trying to turn my interpretations into someone else's truth. What I sense in an image may not be what another person sees, and that uncertainty is part of the work.

Reflection

For me, intimacy does not always come from closeness. Sometimes it comes from recognising the weight of a life we cannot enter, and allowing that distance to remain.

For a deeper look into the thoughts that shape my photographic perspective, read Cold Intimacy: Some People Disappear Before They Die.