Self-taught. Art Basel 2025. Marbella Art Fair 2026.
A camera at fifteen.
He never put it down.
His father handed him his first camera. Eleven years later: five works in private collections, Art Basel 2025, and the Marbella Art Fair with Monat. First Light — his inaugural collection — opens the showroom.
Four hundred millimetres
Distance flattens everything.
At 400mm, miles of air compress into four flat bands — weather, water, tree line, water. Nothing is arranged. The lens simply removes the space between things.
05:46
Before anyone else is up.
Four seconds of open shutter at f/45, stopped down until dawn light behaves like dusk. Held that long, the tide stops being water and becomes a surface.
2015 — unshown for eleven years
The Silence Between The Tides
Shot on a Canon EOS R5 C in 2015 and never exhibited. It hung in no room, went into no collection, and waited eleven years for its first wall. This is that wall.
Enter First Light2015 Self-taught, age fifteen
2024 Five works in private collections
2025 Art Basel
2026 Marbella Art Fair, with Monat — and First Light, the opening collection
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