2023–2025 Photography, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
2017 - 2023 Photojournalism & Documentary Photography, HS Hannover, GER
2017 - 2023 Photojournalism & Documentary Photography, HS Hannover, GER
BOOKS
2025
2025
2024
The Innocent Happiness of Living in the Unknown
2021
Sugar by the Sea
Positioning Statement
In my work, I frequently turn to the past, exploring how historical narratives and their photographic documentation shape our collective and individual memory culture. I am particularly interested in the ways images influence our psychological perception—how they construct, distort, or even erase memory over time.
A central question in my practice is how photographs continue to function once they are removed from their original context. What happens when an image is detached from its historical, social, or personal framework? How does its meaning shift as it is reinterpreted by different viewers across generations?
To engage with these questions, I work with archival materials, data, and found imagery, consciously layering and recontextualizing them through a range of photographic techniques. I often employ analogue and experimental processes, exaggerating or manipulating visual elements to highlight photography’s inherent subjectivity and its complex relationship with truth. This approach allows me to investigate the limits of technological reproducibility and the challenges of preserving memory in an era of rapid digital transformation.
At the heart of my artistic and research-based practice is the desire to foster a deeper reflection on how we remember and what we choose to forget. Step by step, I aim to explore how photography, within the broader landscape of visual culture, can serve as a tool for social awareness and contribute to a more nuanced and just culture of remembrance.