Wordy and a bit nerdy commentary on my work.

The contemporary way of life has completely dissolved boundaries between private and public spheres. It put our personal lives online and under a microscope forcing everyone to carefully curate their reality. Where is an individual’s identity and where is the image of her/him that is being created by carefully selecting content that is used to construct her/his socially perceived self?

Intimate photography functions as a means to remember the candid in its most personal and familiar form and relates to our personal memory. It serves a therapeutic function not only to the photographer and the subject but also to the viewer. Remembrance of the intimate used to do specifically with private archives – family albums, diaries, journals.

At some point, all of these sources are only a part of our personal archives. But then it all came out in advertisements, papers, social networks to become a part of the public sphere leading to a crisis in identity.

I create an intimate truthful visual commentary on my own story. Capture my own emotional and psychological journey through life. I want to appreciate all of it: the hardships, the imperfections, the challenges, the gentle moments, the happy ones. And I want to share it with everyone, especially those whose distorted self-image wouldn't allow them to accept themselves.

Photography is closely connected to the notion of identity as it is a visual document that reflects our embodiment. With my work, I'm saying: "life can be ugly, difficult, messy. It doesn't make it any less valuable". There is more to life than social media's polished perspective allows us to see. Be wrong, be weird, be real, be you. Learn to cherish it all.