Tug of War
Berlin, 2025/2026
Berlin has always been a city of resistance, in a constant game of tug-of-war — but everyone is pulling in a different direction. Currently, those taking to the streets are tackling questions surrounding who receives government funding and who doesn’t. Who is allowed to live here in the midst of a housing crisis and a rise in anti-immigrant right-wing sentiment? Who is allowed take to the streets with recent crack-downs on Palestinian solidarity? And most of all: who is responsible for our coexistence? Is it our politicians, the police, or our communities?
Tug of War sheds light on various threatened groups in Berlin and their resistance: cultural spaces and artists’ studios, women’s shelters, and research institutes, all of which, among others, are affected by the government’s massive budget cuts; the censorship of the Palestinian solidarity movement; demolished housing projects as illegal real estate speculation eats them up; and numerous demonstrations.
Perhaps it is this constant unrest that defines this city: feelings of fear, threat, and unease that are in a state of perpetual tension with solidarity, mobilization, resistance, and struggle.
We are shielded from sadness and grief as children and the details of birth are often kept from us. But what does our often emotionally distanced Western approach to the two most universal moments reveal about us?
Vita et Mors is an ongoing photographic work breaking this distance, documenting spaces that face the basis of life in its fragility head-on. Vita et Mors stems from a questioning of our avoidance towards these ubiqutous experiences until it’s our turn, attempting to go a step closer.
sua casa mia.
Italy, ongoing.
A grandfather I barely knew died in September — a man whose mistakes decades ago fractured an entire family. He died just months after my last photo of him, following 12 years without contact.
Sua casa, mia is a portrait of my mother's family and her hometown in rural Italy. A place holding my fondest summer-memories while also holding pain, trauma and silence buried within family dynamics.
But there's a missing piece: nonna Maria, the only glue keeping us together.
Sua casa, mia retraces memories as new ones are born, attempting to document and understand this place in her absence after cancer took her when I was 17. Since then, our family fractured again and we try to rebuild what it means to be a family.
Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) is a nation that now exists only in memories and photographs. After a 25-year ceasefire following a bloody war rooted in post-Soviet politics, Azerbaijan marched into the ethnically Armenian disputed region to ethnically cleanse 100,000 people, starting in 2020 where thousands of young soldiers died, followed by a nine month blockade and a final war in 2023, wiping Artsakh from the map.
A FORGOTTEN NATION documents Artsakh in its last year of peace and existence, revealing what get's lost during war – not just wars itself are lost, but also textures, smells and sounds, jokes, places of coming-of-age, futures, architecture, nature, stories and a place to exist.
man V nature
Argentina, 2023
Exhibited in Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz in April, 2026
On the way to the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina, long known as one of the few stable glaciers, the tour guide explains that it is currently melting rapidly and possibly irreversibly due to climate change. I step off the boat and join a crowd of people eager to see our third-largest source of water in person. With every CO-2 filled breath I exhale, I feel actively complicit.
Every photo in the series man V nature tells a similar story. If we are part of nature, is our current exploitative relationship with it an act of suicide? We need nature—does it need us? man V nature challenges the assumption that our need for nature – whether it be for resource or leisure – and our belief that we can control it, are greater than its power over us. The fact is: No matter what happens to us, the Earth remains.
slay, quing.
Berlin, 2024
Project for Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie
As Talith transforms into Lilith, their mood changes. Lilith brings up complicated memories. As a drag-persona, Lilith was born in a chaotic phase of Talith’s life, which they start to relive with each stroke of make-up. As Miss. Verständniss (Miss Understanding in German) comes to life, she is shy and silly with a high-pitched girly voice. As Talith continues to transform, Kai Piranha emerges, slowly bringing out a deeper voice. He flirts with the camera, exuding a strange confidence only a gym-bro can have. Kai Prianha doesn’t ask how to pose, he already knows which angle helps the muscles look best on camera.
As part of Berlin’s Brazilian non-binary drag scene, Talith’s transformation into their different personas is a visceral experience. Slay, Quing is an analog photographic study on how these vulnerable moments of transformation between drag-personas reveal new questions about a performer’s relationship with their own body, all while in the privacy of their bedroom.
Talith creates personas, practices their make up and builds their costumes for endless hours at a time at home before hitting the stage. Each persona has different opinions and experiences with gender and society’s treatment of it. As Talith observes their body evolving, in-part through hormone therapy, shedding and adopting new aspects, they are in a constant exchange with it: Which aspects does a gender-normative society praise, which does it frown upon, and which aspects say, ‚fuck-you‘.
Converge/Preserve,
Argentina's last Jewish Cowboys - 2023.
Zine presented in Galerie Teleport, Prague. May 15- June 6, 2025
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Argentine Leisure
Argentina, 20235
24/7
XUAN Kong Fu Academy, Berlin, 2024/5
Full-time residents training, meditating and teaching in the academy requires not only immense discipline, especially in today's digitized, distracted world, but also a balancing act between living in community and being alone.
Armenia, 2019
Armenia, 2023
Armenia, 2023
Armenia, 2019
PORTRAITS
Dead Sea, 2018
California, 2020
Alvaro Guilherme for Berlin Art Link [click image to read article]
Surfing in Cuba [click image to read article]
Cuban Artist Aimee Garcia [click image to read article]
Cuba, 2018
Armenia, 2019
Morocco, 2022