Between Surface and Light

Between Surface and Light is a long-term study of water as a living surface – an interface where light becomes structure. The images begin with ordinary streams, ponds, aquariums, rivers, and coastlines: places we tend to overlook, or treat as simple background.

Across the entire body of work I use one custom color mapping, kept constant from image to image, as if looking through a single, crafted colour lens. This translation reveals an unfamiliar palette and, with it, an unfamiliar kind of form: currents become contours, reflections turn into fields of colour, and the surface begins to feel like a membrane between worlds.

The series invites a slower way of seeing. It asks what might exist beyond our habitual perception – how water might appear if we could sense a wider spectrum, the way other creatures do. Collected over seven years in different locations, these photographs are less about geography than about perception itself: a record of moments when the familiar becomes strange, luminous, and quietly alive.