After the pandemic I needed a new project that would bring me OUT, amongst people.
I’ve always been interested in street photography and to photograph people, but my own camera shyness didn’t let me take stolen pictures, I felt terribly awkward doing it. The Sequences project’s technique gave me this opportunity, keeping a certain distance and creating images where the single individual is not recognizable, it allowed me to introduce people in my work.
Flâneuse was chosen for the Artcrush event in Paris at IhamNFT Gallery (06/23) and was shown for the Belle Epoque Collective Expo in Craiova, Romania, for the 120th anniversary of the Nicolae Romanescu Park, (09/23). The printed version was shown at the Artcrush Gallery first opening exhibition in Brussels (07/23). In 2024 it was part of a selection for billboard public displays in Brussels and Hong Kong.
Some time ago I discovered the term ‘flaneur’, while reading a book by Emile Zola, it immediately resonated with me, aimlessly strolling the city… that is one of the things I like best.
When I gave the title to my first image, Flâneuse, I researched the term online and discovered a book by Lauren Elkin that used the same word as title, I immediately bought it. It pointed out, among a lot of other things, how women were not even allowed to go walking alone around the city up until very recently. Even here in Europe. There are many places where they still cannot.
Sequences is dedicated to them, the women that cannot walk alone for safety, cultural or religious reasons.
Sequences got a nomination by FAPA 2023
(Fine Art Photography Award)
in the Non-professional Experimental section
Sequences – n.01-09 view here: Manifold
Below are a few more works.
EdgeStretching 