Looking For Meanings

(LLMs were used to help organize and translate this post)

A photography collection

Looking for Meanings is a collection of images that resisted being placed anywhere else in my photographic portfolio. Each one caught my attention for a reason — perhaps its colors, textures, composition, or a certain mystery that I couldn't quite explain. Yet none seemed to fit within the concepts explored by the other collections.

These are, in a way, orphan photographs. Images I like, that stayed with me, but for which I couldn't find a more precise category or a common thread strong enough to bring them together elsewhere. Rather than leave them aside, I decided they deserved a place of their own.

Perhaps the absence of a unifying concept is itself the point. These photographs share little beyond the fact that something in each of them made me stop and look. And maybe that's enough. Sometimes, the meaning of an image doesn't need to be defined; it can simply remain an open question, waiting to be discovered — or not.

The photographs span the period from 2009 to 2020, taken with various digital cameras, mobile phones, and medium and large format film cameras.