Shrouds
SHROUDS
Shrouds started as an idea for a single Halloween promo image. Most people send out Christmas cards; I've never cared for that. Halloween has always felt more interesting and playful - it encourages experimentation. What was supposed to be a one-off promo shoot didn't stay that way. The photos carried a weight, and it felt wrong to treat them as disposable.
The images show figures draped in colored cloth, standing quietly in ordinary places: on sidewalks, in restaurants, on stairways, by industrial ruins. Each color has a different rumor or meaning attached to it, such as accident, neglect, madness, or age — but I don't explain those outright. They work more like background noise, like a folklore people half-believe. The point isn't to prove what these figures are, but to show how people might live with them, how quickly something strange can become normal. But these notions of lore did become an internal guide for me in creating this series.
I'm interested in the tension between beauty and unease. The photos are often warm, sometimes even serene, but the figures are mute and faceless. They don't move, they don't respond, yet they feel part of the world around them. That mix between documentation and fiction, between something that looks like editorial photography and something that feels like a ghost story, is where this project lives.
What began as a small Halloween exercise has turned into a continuing body of work. The project has become less about ghosts and more about presence, about how absence shows itself, and about the way we adapt to things we can't explain. It was my way of answering the question "What would it look like if the unseen weight of loss, guilt, and neglect suddenly became visible?"
Browse the collection here.
