I am a photographer who searches for stories in between power and personality.

Political events affect people on a personal level and individual stories shape the perspectives of our collective political history. This balance between the macro politics of power and individual experiences is an integral part of my practice. As someone that was born in the east, and then for most of my life lived in the west, the impacts of the former regime in Eastern-Europe and the emergence of the new Union in all of Europe are recurring departure points in my work.

My work sets out to expose this relationship, presenting a careful and nuanced narrative that intertwines individual anecdotes into the relevant political context. By using personal and public archives, my own photography, text as well as sound, I present the dense chaos we inhabit in an accessible way. I am an organiser of this density into coherent and sensitive narratives of our society. By always switching between the micro and the macro, I tell stories not only of individuals, but of generations, of an era, of shifts from past to present, present to future and at times even from present to the past.

With my work I hope to articulate the collective political struggles we live amidst and provide people with a narrative that enables us to move forward in greater harmony. Looking back, looking at now and looking at the future, I guide the viewer through a universe that is both universal and completely subjective, reflecting my own personal and political experience, yet always searching for common ground with the viewer.

The Hague, May 2021