Black & White 2025

A tree whose twisted forms reveal the suffering and strength with which it has endured the harsh climate and strong winds of Chilean Patagonia.

On the windswept edge of the Falkland Islands, far from the noise of the world, a colony of King Penguins stands in quiet harmony, timeless and unshaken. Captured in black and white, the image distills this remote realm to its essence: grace, resilience, and the haunting silence of life at the farthest reach of the earth.

Fine art street photography

The dystopian aspect of the image suggests a critique of the legacies of the past and the human tendency to construct symbols of defense or isolation, such as bunkers, which end up as empty monuments, relics of an era that has lost its original meaning. The bunker, here, represents the dark side of history, a reminder of collective destruction, while the human figure with somewhat uncertain posture is symbolic of those who seek to come to terms with this past while remaining shrouded in existential uncertainty. “The Bunker” and the landscape become a metaphor for what remains when certainties vanish and we are confronted with ruins, both physical and psychological, representing a journey into human consciousness, an investigation of what remains when confronted with the past and its shadows.

Still life of mushrooms.

A portrait of a young woman in all her innocent, simple and natural beauty without artifice, both inside and out, which aims to be a personal reinterpretation of Johannes Vermeer’s painting: ‘The Girl with a Pearl Earring’. The blur of the leaves in the foreground that frame the face and highlight the eye, brings out the personality of a subject who, despite her shyness, reveals the simplicity and purity of her soul.

This piece illustrates the monochromatic appearance of iconic landmarks in Sydney, Australia. The habour bridge in black is hiding in the background with the Sydney Opera House (right) and Botanic Gardens (left) illustrates how light reflects and shapes our perception of imagery through a monochromatic lens.

A striking black and white photograph that captures a moment of high-contrast drama beneath a string-lit canopy. The composition expertly uses the urban architecture and light to create a cinematic frame for a passionate embrace. The isolation of the couple against the dark street emphasizes the emotional intensity of the moment, suggesting a powerful, ambiguous narrative—a farewell, a secret meeting, or a pivotal turning point. This image offers a timeless, mood-driven piece suitable for features on romance, urban intimacy, or contemporary storytelling.

The Talk portrays the intimate spiritual connection between two figures in conversation, leaning on the power of composition and the correlation between light and shadow to convey human fragility and the need for higher guidance, approval and consolation.

Reminiscent of the title of this jazz standard, the couple stands on a small balcony in Porto’s old town in the middle of the night. All the flats are dark or deserted, but these two people are enough for each other.

A lone figure moves through the lamplight on Merton Street.

Mist, stone, and falling water dissolve into quiet abstraction. In the absence of color, silence becomes the landscape’s truest voice.

Fine art street photography

In a quiet village near Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a child stands against a crumbling wall—still, composed, and deep in thought. His torn shirt speaks of hardship, but his gaze tells a more powerful story: one of quiet strength, dignity, and the unspoken resilience of childhood. Captured in black and white, the image strips away distraction, allowing emotion to rise to the surface—raw, honest, and profoundly human.

A stand of saguaro cacti just outside of the mouth of Sabino Canyon, in Arizona. Photographed at night, this group of cacti cluster around the remains of the nurse tree that sheltered them when the first took root.

A peat barge shed at the peat barge harbour in Gnarrenburg, in the so-called Teufelsmoor (Devil’s Moor), between Hamburg and Bremen in northern Germany. Until the 1950s, peat sods were transported to Bremen on the Oste-Hamme Canal as fuel using peat barges.

A lone cyclist emerges from the mist, passing in front of the Warsaw Mermaid — a symbol of protection — whose silhouette, softened by the fog, appears transformed. Instead of holding a shield, the figure unexpectedly resembles a pregnant woman. This illusion struck me deeply, as I am currently pregnant myself 🙂 In that instant, the monument — usually perceived as warrior-like and defiant — took on a completely different aura: one of quiet strength, vulnerability, and creation instead of defense. The city, the myth, and my own inner reality aligned for just a few seconds in the fog.

Light drifts upward, not in haste but in knowing. What stands here was made for more than function — it was shaped by intention and held together by purpose. Each surface reflects not just light, but time itself —it does not discriminate in use, it only invites to be used. Built to rise, and to remember why.

A solitary ship crosses a luminous horizon in San Francisco, reduced to a stark silhouette against the reflective sea. The black and white tones emphasize the scene’s minimalism, transforming light and shadow into pure form.

This image of the brise soleil at the Milwaukee Art Museum evokes a rocket ready to launch into the heavens.

A scarred valley in Torres del Paine, where fire erased color and left silence. Charred branches stand as fragile witnesses to nature’s endurance.

Night flanerie

I like the informality of the busker against the backdrop of the store formal lines and products on display.

Through the maze of threads, the worker’s hands search for order in chaos. Each line of tension becomes a boundary and a path a delicate negotiation between control and surrender.

A lone saguaro cactus, perched on a hillside, collecting the last light of the day.

Analogue photography (Black & White film 400 iso). Combination of two images to obtain an overlay effect which was made using Photoshop. Definition and grain were enhanced in Lightroom to achieve a poetic effect suggesting the deterioration of photographic procedures.

This series examines women in power and the cultural tension that celebrates their rise but resists their reign. Through portraiture and staged scenes, I explore how society applauds ambition in women only when it stays contained. Drawing on themes from Taylor Swift’s “Father Figure,” the work interrogates the paradox of desire and containment. Women are expected to want the same influence, security, and agency that men seek, but are often punished, policed, or diminished when they pursue or claim those rewards fully. The photographs contrast public narratives of feminine success with intimate moments of constraint. Bars, shadows, and patriarchal settings recur to suggest how structural expectations and gendered double standards act like a gentle imprisonment, not always visible, but effective. Ultimately, the series asks: who benefits when women strive? Who decides which women may lead and under what terms? By pairing references from “Father Figure” with contemporary portraits of ambition, this portfolio aims to make visible the cost of constrained power and to demand a reimagining of leadership that allows women not only to rise, but to reign on their own terms.

Each seat carries the faint echo of lives that leaned here for a while. Wood and metal hold no names, yet everything about them remembers — the pause, the laughter, the weight of being still.

Autumn day in Munich City, on the Isar.

A slice of New Orleans street life in front of the House of Voodoo, in the city’s historic French Quarter.

A craftsman’s hands move through threads like a silent language shaping, tying, and weaving fragments of life into fragile order. Each gesture holds both labor and grace, where creation and constraint become one.

A quiet Oxford street at night, where a single lamp reveals the curve of cobbles and a solitary figure slipping through a doorway.

The mountain mirrors itself in silence. Between shadow and water, the world pauses — and breathes once more.

As I draw back the curtains of my hotel room, the early morning sun lights up a building across the street whose carved friezes whisper of forgotten empires and the grandeur of ancient Near Eastern civilizations.

Two men inspect a boat during a rainstorm. I was struck by the delicate beauty of the boat’s rigging and the elegant umbrellas.

Jakarta, September 2025