Nothing Serious
Stories and Polaroids about life’s little misunderstandings
Nothing serious – Stories and Polaroids about life’s little misunderstandings began as an experiment in letting go of control. After a few years of building photomontages from studio-made macro images, I wanted to work in a way that felt more immediate, imperfect, and unfiltered. I picked up a Polaroid camera and started wandering through the outskirts of cities.
On these walks, I was drawn to places and moments that seemed slightly off. They preserve moments of accidental beauty and heartbreak exactly as I found them – flawed, fleeting, and fundamentally human.
Alongside the photographs, I started writing short stories about a narrator who keeps getting things slightly wrong. His persistence and refusal to stop asking questions is, in a way, hopeful. His repeated misunderstandings become small acts of resistance. In continuing to act, despite everything, he embraces the absurd.
Together, the stories and Polaroids form a kind of notebook of life’s minor errors and misplaced intentions, where humour and melancholy blur into one another.
