As a dancer, I understand that performance is not the opposite of being. To me the most powerful performance happens in full presence. Yet even presence has textures — tension, awareness, self-consciousness, surrender. A porous state. In photography, I look for the micro-transition between these states. The threshold where control dissolves and something quieter emerges. Often it is visible in the eyes. A fleeting expression that was not meant to be shown, when the effort drops for a second. The shoulders loosen. The breath changes. The eyes shift. In front of a camera, we rarely just “are.” We arrange ourselves. We adjust posture, expression, energy. We present a version of who we think we should be seen as. But I am drawn to something else. There is a moment — usually very brief — that happens just after the pose. When someone believes the image has already been taken. In that small interval, something unguarded appears. That is the moment I wait for.

My work explores these intervals — the choreography of presence, the shifts between intention and release, visibility and vulnerability. I am not searching for a fixed truth. I am attentive to the subtle changes that happen when someone stops managing how they appear. Photography, for me, is not about capturing how someone looks. It is about witnessing when the surface opens.