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Each photograph is a unique visual registration of someone or something in a specific time and place. Photographs try to catch or capture specific memories so that they can be remembered. Photographs are made to relive memories. Because photography is a means of representation, it is considered to give the most accurate representation of reality and is therefore often used as a form of documentation. Be that as it may, the role of the photographer and the spectator are crucial in photography, because the truth and the photograph dependent on a photograph and the embodied actors relating to it. This has been accurately articulated by popular visual historian John Berger (1982): "Every image embodies a way of seeing. Even a photograph. For photographers are not, as is often assumed, a mechanical record. Every time we look at a photograph, we are aware, however slightly, of the photographer selecting that sight from an infinity of other possible sights. (…) The photographer's way of seeing is reflected in his choice of subject." Photography is difficult to categorize because it is interdisciplinary and hard to grasp. All kinds of binary positions in photography come to mind: black/white, outside/inside, focused/unfocused, foreground/background, active/passive, and so on. I choose to divide this website in four categories: (1) people and portraits, (2) nature in the broad sense of the word, (3) travel and cultures and (4) activities. I am well aware that this is one of the million
possible options but in line with John Berger's words this is a selection
from an infinity of other possible options. Moreover, this selection says
something about me as a photographer. Previous work:
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