AFTERMATH

A visual meditation on fragility and resilience, capturing the quiet after chaos. Set in a frozen landscape, it traces solitude, memory, and the pulse of life that emerges through shadow, stillness, and the cold.

AFTERMATH is a photographic exploration of emotional residue and the silence that follows inner disruption. Set in a frozen, nocturnal landscape, the work traces a solitary passage through stillness—when the noise had stopped but its presence still lingers in the air. The project emerged from a period marked by intense emotional chaos, and the nightly walks through a rural hometown in Germany became a quiet, repetitive ritual—an attempt to process what remained. The cold streets, bare trees, and fractured surfaces mirrored an internal landscape of isolation, grief, and slow transformation.

The images were created using a small point-and-shoot camera and flashlight, embracing both instinctive responses and constructed moments. Flashlight photography allowed for stark contrasts and sharp textures, while allowing space for blurs, reflections, and obscured forms that hint at emotional uncertainty. Shadows stretch across frozen ground like emotional echoes, and tangled branches and broken surfaces take on symbolic weight. The series is rendered in black and white intending to reflect emotional stillness, but within the muted palette, the color red begins to surface, suggesting an emotion of memory, rupture, anger, or the persistence of life.

The work is presented as a hand-stitched photobook dummy in B5 format with coptic binding. This dummy version is printed on glossy paper, which is intended to intensify contrast and enhance the tactile quality of the images. Red inlays break the visual rhythm, acting as emotional pulses within the narrative. A red forest envelope encloses the white cover, adding a layer of symbolic intimacy. The visual narrative and sequence are designed to introduce the setting and gradually lead through a walk into the night, mirroring both the inner and outer worlds.