I am deeply moved by the theme of disappearance, of fading connections, of what slowly slips away from life and memory. Inspired by the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty — a philosopher for whom the world exists through the continuous interplay between the body and surrounding space — I created this project.
Presence here is not so much physical as it is felt: it manifests in space, in objects, in the traces a person leaves behind.
The human body almost vanishes — and yet, in this very disappearance, it becomes more tangible.
The world is not what lies before us, but what we are constantly intertwined with.
Everything around us bears the imprint of being, even if it’s not directly visible.
It is a silence in which the body continues to speak. A memory without a face.
A presence revealed through absence.
A world in which the human is not the center, but merely one of the many points of existence.
The world passes through us, dissolves, disappears — but its touch leaves traces: in the body, in language, in perception, in art.
I am a photographer. And for me, photography is a way to capture this trace, to preserve the presence within what is slipping away.
Not the image of a person, but their contact with the world.
Not a portrait, but a memory.
My focus is not on what is “visible,” but on what is felt — in space, in gesture, in emptiness. Photography becomes a gesture, a testament to a connection already dissolving, yet still perceptible.
It is not the fixation of a moment, but an attempt to remain in touch with the vanishing.
