The problem isn't the water.
The problem is that we have stopped seeing it.
It is right in front of us. It surrounds us. It is within us. And perhaps, precisely because it is always there, we have stopped noticing it.
We turn on a tap and it appears. We turn it off and it vanishes. We drink it, we use it, we discard it. A daily gesture has turned the extraordinary into habit, and habit into oblivion.
A resource?
More than a resource, water is the origin.
It inhabits our bodies, sustains every form of life, transforms the earth, and shapes the landscape. Without it, there would be no plants, animals, or human beings. There would be no life.
At what point did we forget that we, too, are water?
We depend on it absolutely, yet we live as if it belongs to us. We extract it, consume it, and pollute it. We disrupt its cycles and expect nature to adapt to us, as if the essential could be infinite.
How could we have stopped seeing that upon which our very existence depends?
This project was born from that paradox.
These images do not aim to explain water. They aim to capture our gaze. Sometimes water stops looking like water. It becomes reflection, transparency, movement, matter. It is there, and yet, we barely see it.
Perhaps we need to learn to see it again.
Not just when it is scarce.
Not just when it overflows.
Not just when it becomes a problem.
Seeing it when it is simply there. In its beauty. In its fragility. In its strength.
Because talking about water is also talking about ourselves and the relationship we have built with nature. Perhaps the true scarcity is not just of water. Perhaps it is also a scarcity of awareness.
Water does not need us.
We, however, need it.
Information coming soon.
Selected exhibitions, festivals, and showcases.
Photography project
Water
