within (ongoing)

My ongoing photographic series within explores interpersonal encounters at the intersection of intimacy and representation. The people I photograph are often peers — long-time friends as well as newer acquaintances. Each image emerges slowly: time passes between arriving, talking, and setting up the tripod and camera. This deliberate slowness creates a space of concentration in which closeness can unfold without intruding upon privacy.

The direct gaze into the camera serves as an invitation to mutual perception — an encounter at eye level between subject and viewer. The portraits are taken in private interiors, yet these spaces appear minimally personalized. Personal objects are sparse or absent, rendering the environments ambivalent: they situate the body without fully locating it. What interests me is the tension that arises — between presence and absence, familiarity and anonymity — and how photography can articulate that ambiguity.