Fūbutsushi
There is a word in Japanese that describes those experiences, things, sounds that evoke memories and anticipations of a season.
And there was a place in Japan that I never got to fully grasp, but where I kept going back to.
It’s in eastern Kyushu, Japan. These are my fūbutsushi of a season past.
Homelands
A three-part photographic series
exploring the different geographies that make my life experience.
Homelands: #1
Homelands: #2
Homelands: #3
Death of a Rabbit
This is a land of barren landscapes laying under a scorching sun, of indistinguishable spaces and roads going nowhere. It’s a place for obscure presences and omens bringing disquiet into the fabric of the everyday.
Here is where a rabbit dies.
Interlude
A man is staring idly out of an airplane window as the plane descends. He seems uninterested and in no rush; he has no purpose where he is going anyway. His improvised travel is inconsequential.
After the Quake
Nepal is still reeling from the powerful earthquake of 2015.
Tourism, a major player for the economy, is bringing benefits to those involved in the sector but also downsides, such as increased commodity prices impacting those living below the poverty line and loss of natural as well as cultural heritage.
I have spent a month traveling through the Himalayas, a relatively short time for such a complex topography. These are my visual notes, observations and encounters from a country trying to get back on its feet.
Land of Plenty
Building something out of nothing.
This project is a the result of a number of trips to Doha, Qatar. It is about class divisions in the surreal surroundings of a city under constant construction.
Agrypnia
Athens: A city surrounded by hills, covered with light and engulfed by a constant economic crisis, sleepily moving through the 21st century.
The Granary
An epiphanic journey through nationalism, religion, economic crisis and a glorious past in Ukraine.
Everything In Its Right Place
A love letter to Japanese conformity. It’s made of observations taken over the years, across multiple trips to a country I came to know to a little extent, and love far more.
For Lack of Better Places
Adaptation and survival when space is a luxury.
A visual ode to alternative and unintended uses of urban spaces and non-places in Hong Kong.
Water In The Desert
A journey through the Silk Road on the way to a missing sea: A series about water, power and deceptive appearances in Uzbekistan.
Postmodernity
In 2017 I took a flight to South Korea and decided to travel the country from North to South before boarding a boat to Japan.
I saw many things and many people sleeping.