Life through a lens

I am happy to have been nominated in the 2023 Fine Art Photography Awards with my photo “Distant Shores”. Here's the story behind it, including three principles that guide me in my work as a photographer - and in life more broadly.

All happiness in life is transitory. We cannot escape the pain of looking back. But when the rainy days come, as they inevitably do, it’s actually the pain that propels us forward and allows us to experience a deeper kind of happiness again in the future.

One of the biggest sources of stress in modern life is feeling the psychological pressure to be always on. What if we modelled our work after the rhythms and seasons of nature instead?

To get into a flow state where you perform the same habits every day, designing your environment for consistency may be the best thing you can do.

At a time when many are (silently) struggling with mental health, my thoughts keep going back to a conversation I had with a mental health professional on a dark winter evening fifteen years ago.

A strange thing has happened during the pandemic: we have lost our natural perception of the passage of time. We feel stuck in the same moment, which - paradoxically - seems to last both forever and a mere nanosecond.