... as photographer

Photography has been an extraordinary learning ground for me. 

The great Swedish photographer Anders Petersen once told me that the camera is not there to take nice pictures but serves as an alibi—to place oneself in a situation one deeply desires to be in. I have tried to live up to that wonderful motto.

Beyond its visceral pleasure, photography has become a vector of inquiry, resonating with other modes of exploration. It nourishes my post-disciplinary research practice, engaging with some of the urgent questions of our time: What does it mean to operate from an ethics of enchantment? How to live in a time of endings, and where are the kernels of regeneration to be found? 

For me, photography is a way of thinking and worlding—one that invites reflexivity, fluidity, and honesty. This, I have come to realise, is its deeper calling.