2022 - ongoing
In Ghosts in the Forest Mountains, I trace the porous boundary between memory and myth in the Bohemian Forest (Šumava) – a region marked by displacement, erasure, and enduring entanglement. Using 8×10 inch large format photography, I explore how folktales, landscapes and historical absences form a shared cultural memory shaped by both Czech and German histories.
The images operate at the threshold between documentary and fiction. Fragments of oral traditions and visual echoes of vanished villages become tools to question what remains when places are lost and stories survive only in whispers.
This work is less about nostalgia than it is about rupture, about what it means to remember through the land – and what happens when silence settles where once there was home.
