Rest at Resistance

I use pinhole camera and long exposures guided by meditation to capture myself trying to be, being still, sort of disappearing - without lenses, control or instant results, I treat time, light, and uncertainty as tools, allowing images to form organically

Pinhole Meditations is a photographic project that investigates slowness and attention as active methods of creation. Working with pinhole cameras (simple box without lenses) and 120 film— I produce long-exposure photographs guided by a meditation practice as a timer, letting go of control, replacing it with presence and play.

My exposures value - from few seconds to twenty minutes - to an overnight capture.
I trust in material to develop and deliver the best possible outcomes, meanwhile I let the film travel, the light engage with its surface, and all sorts of things to happen - from accidental camera fall to people or motorbikes being on the way between me and camera.

The inability to preview or precisely frame the image introduces uncertainty at every stage. Once an exposure begins, intervention is no longer possible; the image must be endured rather than directed. This process shifts authorship away from decision-making toward duration, allowing chance to act as collaborators - one of my favourite things are a happy accidents - and here I managed to collect them galore!

My childhood dream of a superpower was always to be invisible.. I wonder if this project is part of me realising this dream - registering traces of myself in interiors, retaining evidence of presence through partial absence - soft, unstable, and often ghostlike.

Drawing on my background in cinematography — a discipline grounded in precision, narrative structure, and motion — this work constitutes a deliberate refusal of speed and visual certainty, proposing photography as a contemplative, embodied practice, and teaching myself (and the audience) to surrender and reflect.