PHOTOGRAPHY AS VISUAL INVENTORY
I view photography as a form of visual inventory—a tool to record the reality of places and objects typically excluded from official discourse. My goal is to construct an archive of the city’s hidden layers. In my practice, I adopt the role of a “sidewalk botanist,” systematically documenting the inter-spatial gaps: the cracks, back alleys, and peripheries. I am driven by the surrealism of the everyday—those specific ruptures in the structure of reality where the mundane becomes uncanny. I capture moments of suspension where the boundary between the real and the impossible dissolves, revealing the city’s “second face.” In these series, photography becomes a method of relational cartography, treating every frame as a technical record of the tensions between an object, its surroundings, and the ground.
This methodology is deeply informed by my twenty years of architectural practice. My background in structural design allows me to read the urban fabric not just as a visual backdrop, but as a complex system of pressures and occlusions. I utilize the surveyor’s precision to document urban heterotopias and “non-places,” recording what exists beneath our feet—the marginal details that usually escape notice. By applying an architectural rigor to these visual “cracks,” I seek to uncover the true identity of a place, transforming neglected fragments into a systematic spatial inventory.