Cinematica

There is a specific observational quality to these images, where each scene gains a greater importance after being edited, immortalising seemingly ordinary moments with a different perspective. A new approach to street photography explores a sense of the street as an extension of the home and the street as a theatre, playing with familiar motifs and daily-life details, and the theatrical quirkiness of human behaviour.

The unique relationships between people and flowers shape how certain species have influenced cultural traditions, rituals, economies, and daily life. Through a blend of documentary and poetic approaches, this long-term project uses photography as a tool to preserve stories at risk of disappearing—threatened by cultural erosion, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity. The first story takes place in Takase, a village in Japan’s Yamagata Prefecture, where the safflower has been cultivated for centuries. Once used to create a rare crimson dye reserved for the elite, the flower still plays a central role in seasonal rituals and community identity. By capturing the gestures, labour, and quiet beauty of these practices, the project reveals how something as fragile as a flower can carry generations of meaning.