A STILL BECOMING IN

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is often thought of as the art of the instant. A split-second capture, a frozen frame. But I use it to look for something else: the slow unfolding of a human being. Not the face they wear, but the presence that gathers over years, even decades.

This is the paradox I work within: that a single image, taken in a fraction of a second, can touch something that has taken a lifetime to form. I seek out the quiet signs of becoming. The trace of a thought not yet spoken. The weight of experience without narration. The before of identity.

My interest lies in the pre-conscious, in what is felt rather than declared. In portraiture, I look not for likeness, but for the tension between what is shown and what resists being seen. The human being not as a conclusion, but as a question still unfolding.

A photograph, in this sense, is not an answer, but a vessel. It holds the ambiguity of someone mid-becoming - fragile, unresolved, real.

Slowness is not a method. It is an ethic. A resistance to the demand for clarity, performance, or completion. My portraits do not seek to define, but to accompany. To remain with what is unfinished. To give form to what cannot be rushed: the long becoming of a person.