"A dream is not reality but who's to say which is which?" - Lewis Carroll.
Perhaps, when we create something, we become like children and use our imagination to emigrate to our imaginary world. Reality can be harsh, but our fictional world makes us feel harmonious in it. In this selection of self-portraits taken by camera phone in one shot, I find my world in reflections and shadows. These are reflections and shadows that I suddenly come across while going about my day-to-day activities. Out comes my mobile and I emigrate. While creating the composition, I discover an amazing thing. Before I take out the camera, I look around and it seems like there is chaos everywhere.
However, when I look through the camera screen (viewfinder), I form the background, middle and foreground of the photo and find my place in this new reality. At that moment, before I press the touchscreen button, everything in the photo itself forms an unexpected order, everything finds its place and interacts with the other elements, including my own image. This is how my composition is built.
I think this is very important because it is a principle that really helps in life to understand difficult situations. It’s good to look at your chaos, as if from the outside. That's what I do now, I look at everything through the viewfinder.
From childhood we are taught to be the same as everyone else, but then, throughout our lives, we try to find our differences and show our individuality. It seems to me that when we are fearless in our self-expression in creativity, and not only, it reveals us from different sides and makes us different and interesting.
