End of the Season

A photographic elegy for the senses — the end of summer as a symbol of fading material reality and the sensual intensity of a world slowly slipping from experience.

End of the Season is a story about the end of summer — about the passage of time when the world is still thick with smells, touch, and warmth. It is a moment when everything has its intensity: the dense, sticky air, the water smelling of salt, and the sun heavy, like a ripe fruit.

The project is set in Albania, after the holiday season has ended, when the traces of the fading summer still hang in the air, though one by one they begin to disappear. Empty beaches. Stray dogs roaming the streets. Shopkeepers packing up their stalls. The last tourists no longer venturing into the now-too-cold water. Surprisingly quickly greening hotel pools. Evenings growing colder. Summer is still present, yet its end is already visible.

Summer in the project exists as a symbolic trace: intense, shimmering, full of life. The photographs attempt to capture what is disappearing: physicality, intimacy, the sensual experience of the world, and our direct connection to nature — the sense of belonging to a world that is alive and tangible. In an increasingly digital age, the ability to feel and contact with matter is becoming a luxury. Soon, all that will be left is an echo — quiet, yet still vibrating in the memory of the skin.

End of the Season is an elegy for a world that is fading, giving way to a new era: the digital experience, in which everything becomes processed and projected. It is an awareness of the inevitability of change in the deepest layers of what, until now, has defined our humanity.