PHOTOGRAPHER | VISUAL ARTIST

PHOTOSHOPPED? — This series is the artist's imprint of everyday life that appears so unfamiliar they are often mistaken for generated images. Viewers frequently asked for proof: Where was this taken? How was it made? How much has been altered?

 

The work was never intended to deceive. Instead, it examines the changing relationship between photography and its audience — the expectation that images must explain themselves, that they must be verifiable, and that the spaces they depict must correspond to a shared idea of reality.

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What happens when they aren't? When a real place refuses to look real?

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This series asks not whether images can be trusted, but why we need them to be — and what that need reveals about how we construct, and resist, our understanding of the world around us.

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The work was created before the widespread emergence of generative AI. The questions it raised felt premature at the time, but today they have become increasingly unavoidable — as the boundaries between the real, the altered, and the imagined continue to shift.