TO BE SEEN

What is it when your images are not your voice, but an echo of another person? Fleeting moments that at times feel more honest than bonds held for a lifetime.

To Be Seen is an ongoing photographic inquiry rooted in presence, trust, and vulnerability. Rather than approaching portraiture as an act of direction or authorship, the work emerges from moments in which the photographer becomes a receptive medium — an echo of the person in front of him. The images are not shaped by a predetermined vision, but by what the subject chooses to share as their guard begins to fall.

The project unfolds through encounters that range from brief, unplanned meetings to extended sessions spanning several hours or an entire day. These variations in duration allow each interaction to take its own shape, without expectation or performance, responding only to the conditions of the encounter itself.

The process is guided by dialogue, listening, and shared attentiveness. As the interaction deepens, inhibition often gives way to ease, and the images begin to shift — not only in gesture or posture, but in emotional register. The work is shaped less by what is seen than by what is felt within that exchange.

The photographs are unretouched. The work does not pursue idealised images, but attends to small truths — the intimacy of being seen just as one is, and what surfaces in moments of openness. Each image carries the residue of the encounter, holding the imprint of energy, surrender, and mutual presence.