Monochromatic Distortion

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The Temporal Manipulation of Rapid Stillness

Monochromatic Distortion is made entirely in-camera, devoid of editing.
Within a still medium, these frames compress time — articulating its passage through distortion. Movement draws itself across the frame in streaking lines, resolved only by extremes of black and white.
What survives that compression is impression — dissolving the way memory does: figures without faces, structures without edges. Dreams, distant memories, at times nightmares. The work records what was felt rather than what was seen, and explores our boundaries between space, time, and perception.
To enter these frames is to stand inside the visualized dimension of time itself, looking outward at the world. Once its frame of reference is successfully navigated, returning to static reality will pose a challenge.
A fragment of the viewer may remain, bound within the dimension shaped by my lens.

Drawn from work made across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Works from this collection were exhibited at Boomer Gallery, London, 2026.

Memories, Dreams & Nightmares

Lone Wonderer

Limited 25 - 2024ref.won

Observer

Limited 25 - 2024ref.obs

Exhibited By Boomer Gallery in London in January 2026, Lone Wanderer and Observer are part of the Monochromatic Distortion collection, a non-edited body of work created entirely in-camera. These two images depict emotional landscapes encountered along unconventional journeys. 
Individuals who live nomadic or nontraditional lives often find themselves isolated on bespoke paths that are not always understood by others. The visual language of this collection is rooted in dreams, distant memories, and, at times, nightmares. The works explore this emotional terrain—one presenting a solitary figure in complete isolation, the other following an observer of two distant figures on their own journey—together suggesting a heightened sense of separation and psychological distance.
These images were organically captured at the lighthouse pier in Matosinhos, Portugal.

Multi-dimensional Visualizations

Temporal Dissociation

Limited 50 - 2024ref.MDTD

Temporal Dissociation — limits overcome, fog ahead.

Temporal Dissociation belongs to Monochromatic Distortion, a non-edited series created entirely in-camera, where distortion and motion carry the passage of time inside a still frame.
I live nomadically — a bespoke path pressed against the conventional one, a friction that surfaces as anxiety, and settles into dreams, distant memories, sometimes nightmares. A split frame, light against dark. Two figures sit mirrored, occupying different moments. The dark figure remembers societal limits overcome long ago. The light figure facing the optimistically uncertain future, looking into the overpoweringly bright midday fog rolling onto the lighthouse pier at Matosinhos, Portugal.
Monochromatic Distortion — exhibited at Boomer Gallery, London, 2026.

Timeline Departure 2024ref.MDTLD

A vessel departs a pier that reads as a linear timeline—once a point of restraint, offering comfort and safety through attachment, now a structure left behind. As the vessel moves beyond that familiar boundary, the image reflects a release from prescribed progression and inherited conformity, where leaving comfort becomes an act of self-determination and freedom emerges through uncertainty.

Fishermen

2024ref.MDF

Time Passages

Trier2025 & Amsterdam 2024 ref.TP1,2,3

Nocturne Grove

Germany 2025 ref.NG1-4

Organic matter existing in continuous motion, yet registers as still through time—forms caught between constant movement and permanent stillness. The work examines natural motion as a sustained condition, where the trees appear to hold time rather than pass through it.

Germany

Der Dom 2025ref.MDG1

Dom Profile 2025ref.MDG2

Locked Motion 2025ref.MDG3

Castle Pond 2025ref.MDG4

Royal Reflections 2025ref.MDG5

Eltz 2025ref.MDG6

Trier 2025ref.MDG6

Trier 2025ref.MDG7

Austria

Contrasting Reflections 2025ref.MDA1

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Venice

Grand Canal 2024ref.V1

Last Light 2024ref.V2

Tower over Square 2024ref.V3

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