I am interested in the fragile space where composure softens. 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 — often the strongest, most controlled, most resolved version. 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. When the effort drops for a second. The shoulders loosen. The breath changes. The eyes shift. In that small interval, something unguarded appears. A porous state. A subtle slip where the constructed image becomes permeable. This is what interests me most.

As a dancer, I understand that performance is not the opposite of being. The most powerful performance happens in full presence. Yet even presence has textures — tension, awareness, self-consciousness, surrender. 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. Something they try to hide while presenting their best version — and then, for a fraction of a second, forget to maintain. 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.