REMAINS

Remains of people, places, moments…

When you look through the viewfinder and half-press the shutter to focus on a point, everything falls out of focus for a split second. At some point, I realised I often liked that split second more than the final, perfectly sharp image.

So I started turning off auto-focus and creating those frames intentionally. At first, without intellectualising it. I’ve never liked busy images. And this gave me exactly that. It got rid of the details and decluttered the frame. That was the reason, or at least that’s what I thought.

Only later did I start to understand why these images stayed with me. Because they felt like memories. The facts are blurred, but the feeling is still there. They work like how our minds work – leaving out most of it and holding on to what sticks.

If photography is about capturing a moment and turning it into a memory, Remains is my attempt to capture the memory itself.