Project

Transforma is an ongoing photographic series in which I examine discarded objects and overlooked materials in my immediate surroundings as points of departure for a photographic and conceptual transformation. Every print is produced using cameras and equipment I have designed and built myself.

Through manipulations of negative, light and perspective, Transforma activates a process in which everyday materials undergo an ontological shift — from refuse to visual construction, from the overlooked to the potentially sublime.

The project explores the relationship between reality and illusion, destabilizing the viewer’s expectations of what is documentation and what is staging. Within this visual negotiation emerges a poetic ambivalence, where objects both reveal and obscure their own material identity.

Questions arise about the value we assign to matter and the hierarchies we accept in aesthetics:
What happens when what is marginal or discarded is not merely represented, but transformed into a carrier of symbolic and visual significance? The work examines not only the photographic medium’s capacity to generate illusion, but also how illusion itself can operate as a critical space for reflection — where waste, light and perception converge in an unresolved yet meaningful in-between.