Hidden Kingdom

The work Hidden Kingdom consists of images photographed between 2006–2016 and is a personal journey through inner and outer scenarios formed by situations and encounters. For over ten years I traveled extensively through various European countries, including Moldova, Ukraine, Turkey, Russia, Albania, and Serbia. The geography was never important itself, I just tried to be driven by instinct, to be open to situations as they were, not think too much. On these journeys I have often found myself in moments that appear to have neither a beginning nor an end. Rather, I’ve found myself in the middle of something.

"Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It’s a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littré says so, and he’s never wrong. And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes. It’s on the other side of life."

Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Journey to the End of the Night