Time Traveler's Diary

A staged self-portrait series in which the artist enters imagined historical moments as witness, intruder, and time traveler, questioning memory, identity, history, and the fragile border between documentation and fiction.

Time Traveler’s Diary is a staged self-portrait series in which I enter imagined historical moments as witness, intruder, and photographer. The project moves between history, fiction, memory, and self-portraiture, asking what it means to “document” an event that never truly had a camera — or a witness like me — inside it.

In these images, I appear not as a heroic time traveler, but as a late, uncertain visitor. I arrive with a camera in places where I do not belong: moments of invention, myth, discovery, violence, beauty, and cultural memory. The camera becomes both evidence and impossibility. It suggests documentary truth, while the scene itself remains openly fictional.

The series grew from my interest in the fragile border between historical memory and personal imagination. Some works refer to science, art, literature, biblical stories, or iconic moments from the collective past. Others are more ambiguous, closer to dream or allegory. In all of them, the self-portrait functions as a question: who is allowed to witness history, and what happens when the witness arrives too late?

Although the images are digitally constructed, they are rooted in staged photography and self-performance. I photograph myself as the recurring figure and then build the scene around that presence. The result is a kind of impossible diary: a personal archive of events I could not have seen, but somehow remember.