fujifilm 35mm
lisbon, portugal, june/july 2022


boat to go / boat to come back
This series traces the liminal space of crossing—the daily commuting by ferry between Lisbon and Barreiro, the departure and return. At first, the repetition numbed me: the shudder of the engine, the salt-stained windows, the way the city’s glow receded as the industrial outskirts yawned ahead. But in time, the monotony cracked open. The commute became a metaphor.

These images are not just documents of transit, but fragments of a suspended state—between home and exile, presence and absence, the luminous and the vacant. They ask: What does it mean to leave, even temporarily? To sever oneself from one landscape and enter another, over and over, until neither feels entirely whole?

For nine years, I have lived away from my hometown; for seven, adrift from my country. The ferry, with its relentless back-and-forth, became an echo of this displacement—a mechanical heartbeat measuring the distance between where we are and where we long to be. The water, indifferent, carries us anyway.

Followed by the videos here.




fujifilm xperia 35mm
poland, december 2022