Ordinary Distance
For eight years, the United States was where I lived, studied, worked, drove, traveled, and learned to photograph. Over time, I became interested less in an iconic idea of America than in the ordinary places I encountered while moving through it: motels, roadside businesses, homes, industrial buildings, small towns, cars, empty streets, and landscapes shaped by both human presence and absence.
These places became deeply familiar to me, although they never felt entirely mine. After leaving the United States, that familiarity began to change. Places I once passed through without thinking acquired a different weight, and what had been everyday began to feel distant. The photographs in Ordinary Distance come from that tension: between belonging and estrangement, intimacy and observation, memory and the experience of looking again.
The project is not intended as a comprehensive portrait of America. Instead, it follows the fragments through which a place becomes personal—the architecture people inhabit, the roads they travel, the objects they leave behind, and the small gestures and traces that suggest lives continuing beyond the frame.
As the work develops, I am moving closer to people and toward more intimate observations, allowing human presence to become increasingly visible within a landscape I once knew from the inside and now encounter from a growing distance.