Xtreme Sightings

  • Dates
    2020 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Locations New York, Shanghai, Paris, Tunis, Brussels, Singapore, Denmark, Seoul

“Xtreme Sightings” explores how urban perception and intimacy are reshaped by digital interfaces, advertising, and accelerated modes of connection.

Each sighting stems from a genuine encounter.

Photographs flow from hallucinatory architectural views to intimate close-ups of individuals whose behaviours have reached new extremes.

Human presence is mediated through screens and reflections, shaping contactless dating and transactions. 

Some images arise from spontaneous observation, while others are reconstructed, depicting a reality where lived experience and representation increasingly overlap.

Public space becomes saturated with logos and advertising, while individuality intensifies within a globalized world.

Across different cities, a recurring visual language traces shared ways of seeing, from younger generations defined by dense online presence to regions where same-sex relationships are criminalized.

Intimacy emerges as something expressed, concealed, or negotiated.

The series invites viewers to reflect on how humans connect and how vision is filtered, distorted, and transformed.

Moving from hypnotic large-scale views to zoomed-in figurative portraits, “Xtreme Sightings” drifts between alienation and intimacy, between immediacy and distance.

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.1 - “Deserted street through Covid-19” Singapore (2020)
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Xtreme Sighting no.1 - “Deserted street through Covid-19” Singapore (2020)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.7 - “Advertising display” Shanghai, China (2020)
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Xtreme Sighting no.7 - “Advertising display” Shanghai, China (2020)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.12 - “Branded jersey” Brussels, Belgium (2021)
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Xtreme Sighting no.12 - “Branded jersey” Brussels, Belgium (2021)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.4 - “Urban reflections” Singapore (2020)
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Xtreme Sighting no.4 - “Urban reflections” Singapore (2020)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.13 - “Water drop” New York, United States (2022)
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Xtreme Sighting no.13 - “Water drop” New York, United States (2022)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.8 - “Contactless dating” Brussels, Belgium (2021)
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Xtreme Sighting no.8 - “Contactless dating” Brussels, Belgium (2021)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.15 - “Contactless transaction” Paris, France (2022)
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Xtreme Sighting no.15 - “Contactless transaction” Paris, France (2022)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.22 - “Gen Z Nostalgia”, Seoul, South Korea (2025)
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Xtreme Sighting no.22 - “Gen Z Nostalgia”, Seoul, South Korea (2025)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.21 - “Gen Z Nostalgia” Seoul, South Korea (2025)
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Xtreme Sighting no.21 - “Gen Z Nostalgia” Seoul, South Korea (2025)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.9 - “Urban reflections” Brussels, Belgium (2021)
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Xtreme Sighting no.9 - “Urban reflections” Brussels, Belgium (2021)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.5 - “Store window” Shanghai, China (2020)
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Xtreme Sighting no.5 - “Store window” Shanghai, China (2020)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.17 - “Human structure in Nature” Humlebæk, Denmark (2024)
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Xtreme Sighting no.17 - “Human structure in Nature” Humlebæk, Denmark (2024)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.25 - “Logged-Off” Seoul, South Korea (2025)
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Xtreme Sighting no.25 - “Logged-Off” Seoul, South Korea (2025)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.16 - “N₂O in a Covid protection glove” Paris, France (2021)
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Xtreme Sighting no.16 - “N₂O in a Covid protection glove” Paris, France (2021)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.11 - “Uncovered ear” Brussels, Belgium (2022)
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Xtreme Sighting no.11 - “Uncovered ear” Brussels, Belgium (2022)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.6 - “Branded sneaker” Shanghai, China (2020)
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Xtreme Sighting no.6 - “Branded sneaker” Shanghai, China (2020)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.10 - “Double-branded sweatshirt” Paris, France (2021)
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Xtreme Sighting no.10 - “Double-branded sweatshirt” Paris, France (2021)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.19 - “Contactless dating” Tunis, Tunisia (2024)
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Xtreme Sighting no.19 - “Contactless dating” Tunis, Tunisia (2024)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.20 - “Grindr conversation in Arabic” Tunis, Tunisia (2024)
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Xtreme Sighting no.20 - “Grindr conversation in Arabic” Tunis, Tunisia (2024)

© Q - Xtreme Sighting no.2 - “Traffic jam” Singapore (2020)
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Xtreme Sighting no.2 - “Traffic jam” Singapore (2020)

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