Selected Projects
What if We Were Lovers? examines intimacy and emotional attachment within the accelerated structures of contemporary dating culture. Rooted in personal encounters formed through dating apps, the project uses photography to trace moments of closeness that emerge quickly yet dissolve just as easily.
The images were made with the full consent of the people involved, photographed during real dates and shared moments rather than staged or directed situations. Rather than documenting relationships in a traditional sense, the photographs function as fragments of shared time—gestures, landscapes, bodies, and fleeting interactions that resist narrative completion. They hover between tenderness and uncertainty, reflecting how intimacy today is often shaped by immediacy, projection, and emotional ambiguity.
By positioning private experiences within a broader social condition, the project approaches romance as something increasingly formatted and transactional, where desire is intensified but emotional continuity becomes fragile. Photography here serves not as proof of love, but as residue—what remains when connection slips away.
What if We Were Lovers? invites viewers to reflect on how intimacy is formed, consumed, and remembered in an era defined by choice, speed, and emotional disposability.
(Images excerpted from the artist book layout)
Alongside the photographs, the project extends into an artist book that brings together dating diaries, reflections, and fragments of digital communication, including private chats and social media traces. Designed in the scale of a smartphone, the book mirrors the intimate and mediated space where these encounters unfold.
Rather than functioning as a personal journal, the book operates as a response to post-digital romance and contemporary dating culture. It reflects a landscape shaped by immediacy, formatting, and emotional negotiation, where truth and fiction, tenderness and heartbreak coexist. What remains are not stable narratives of love, but traces—memories, projections, and emotional residues.
In this sense, modern romance appears as a process of de-romanticisation: desire is intensified, yet continuity becomes fragile. The work asks what happens when love is endlessly sought, endlessly available, and yet increasingly difficult to hold onto.