School is a Cultural Box
School Is a Cultural Box brings together a selection of photographs created between January 2017 and May 2018, during involvement in educational projects across India, Myanmar, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka. The title reflects an ongoing inquiry into how systems of learning are shaped by culture—how education both mirrors and constructs collective identity and at the same time reflects power dynamics of society, class and religion.
Through analogue, digital and documentary practice, the series explores the spaces where teaching, representation, and cultural perception intersect. Guided by a decolonial approach, the work resists external narratives of observation and instead seeks an ethics of presence—one grounded in reciprocity, listening, and shared experience. Each image stands as a moment of exchange rather than documentation, revealing the subtle ways in which education becomes a vessel of culture, memory, and imagination.
Rural and urban communities: An analog reportage in Brasil
This series presents a selection of photographs created in Brazil between 2023 and 2024. Through the use of analogue photography, the work explores the vitality of urban resistance spaces and the quiet rhythms of rural life. The choice of analog film as a medium reflects a commitment to a slower, more attentive process—one that seeks to reduce intrusion and foster genuine encounters. Each image emerges from an ethical dialogue with the people and the communities portrayed, offering a visual reflection on resilience, coexistence, and everyday shared beauty.
Brasil- Inner Cities Portraits -
Created in Brazil between 2024 and 2025, this series continues the research and explore with analogue photographs. This series is diving into the urban life style in the north of the country, mainly the cities of Belem and Manaus, the great Amazonian capitals. In this visual research, I sought to follow the daily life of the bustling markets and the dynamics of the streets in historic centres, which already reflect the differences with the environment and urban landscapes of the capitals in the south of the country.
Berlin
This photographic project explores the city and urban life of Berlin, with a focus on liminal spaces, public spaces and space appropriation. My visual research in this reportage focused on spaces of collective interest: squares, parks, canals along the river, courtyards, but also organised common spaces such as the Floating University Berlin project: A Natureculture learning site - Urban practice on and in the rainwater retention pool of the former Berlin Tempelhof airport since 2018.
And it is precisely part of this photographic project that was shot in this location, during the participation in the Co-Making Matter workshops: FREE RADICALS bringing together collaborators for a rhizomatic creation process. The experience was developing the ongoing series “Footnotes” in collaboration with the project re_routing. These sessions focus on sharing practices through collective exercises and experimenting with moving together in space.
The reportage also includes photos of the Love Parade and the FEEL Festival. In these contexts, I was fascinated by the subversive use of spaces, decontextualised from their original connotations, becoming worlds where other forms of expression and identity representation exist.
