Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Portrait »
Bronze Medal
My practice focuses on photographing everyday routines — repetitive rituals, unnoticed moments, and the quiet pauses of daily life.
I explore a state of “smiling depression,” where everything appears normal, yet an inner tension or silent struggle persists.
My subjects emerge from familiar situations: domestic life, solitude, relationships, and work. These figures often exist between contrasting conditions — stability and anxiety, intimacy and distance, social roles and inner experience.
I approach the space as a kind of “incubator” — a place where emotions, vulnerability, and lived experience are exposed. Within it, situations unfold as slightly absurd and associative, echoing childhood memories while questioning notions of femininity and masculinity.
Play becomes a method: through interaction with objects, I engage in a process of searching, testing, and discovering the thresholds of sensibility, as well as exploring the relationship between the self and its environment.
Arranged in series, the images form a Kafkaesque sequence — an endless movement from one room to another. Time and place recede into the background, giving way to emotional experience.
Through this approach, I seek to question the idea of normality, expand the boundaries of portraiture, and challenge conventional notions of beauty and established clichés.
