Photography, for me, is a form of listening.I'm based in Berlin, and the city runs through much of my work — its architecture, its rhythms, the unscripted moments that surface when you slow down enough to notice them. But I'm equally drawn to what exists at the edges of the visible: the interior that hasn't been touched in years, the face caught before it composes itself, the still life that nobody arranged. No single subject. A consistent way of paying attention.

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