July 2026 — The Essay in Images
Studio Letter — July 2026
IWelcome to this month’s Studio Letter.
This month, I would like to share something a little different.
Over the years, many of my photographs have existed only as individual prints. Some have found their way into private collections, others have remained quietly on the walls of my studio, waiting for the right moment. Recently, I began asking myself a simple question: what happens when these images are allowed to speak to one another instead of standing alone?
That question became the starting point for my first artist book.
It is neither a catalogue nor a retrospective. It is simply an essay written in images. Thirty-two black-and-white works from the Nude Shade series brought together not to document a career, but to create a single visual conversation.
The book reflects something I have believed for a long time: the tool itself is never the most important part of an image. Whether a work begins with a camera, a hybrid process, or another creative method, what ultimately matters is what remains after the viewer has turned the page—or walked away from the print. Emotion. Atmosphere. Silence.
For that reason, every copy is produced as a small collector’s object rather than a mass publication. Each book is accompanied by a fine art print personally selected by me, making every copy slightly different from the next. The edition itself is planned to remain limited to no more than twenty copies.
This month, alongside the book, I would also like to present a new Gallery of the Month: Soror in Figura—a series exploring one of the most recognisable visual archetypes through contrast, symbolism, and quiet provocation.
Thank you, as always, for following my work.
As is my tradition, each month I present a “Gallery of the Month” — a personal selection of works that resonated with me most during this period.
Gallery of the Month: July 2026 — Soror in Figura
In this series, that familiar image is quietly displaced. A nun smokes a cigarette. Another stands on the roadside with the ease of a hitchhiker. One wears stockings beneath the habit. Another blows a bubble of chewing gum or lingers over a lollipop with complete indifference. These gestures are deliberately ordinary, even playful, yet they transform the meaning of the figure without abandoning its dignity.