Part I — Last week I wrote a short essay in which I tried to understand why the general public hates contemporary art and hence contemporary artists who create that art and I have been thinking about what an artist actually is since then. I am not the first to ask that question…

Everybody hates contemporary art. — What a statement. Unfortunately, it is not far from the truth. Of course, that “everybody” doesn’t include those within the art world, but rather the rest of the mortals who are supposed to experience and appreciate art and the work of the artist. And they are pissed. To be quite…

Part I — Linda Nochlin, back in 1971, asked herself the question that would shake the artworld, a question that not only made her famous but that allowed for extensive research and criticism into how we understand and interpret art: Why have there been no great women artists?¹. Linda Nochlin took upon herself…

Hello everyone and welcome to my first post on Medium. I have been writing a blog for a few years on my own portfolio website on photography but I thought it could be great to also share some of my essays here. I would like to start with my understanding…

Sometimes I have a little bit of spare time to stop and think about what goes on in the world. Lately, this is not happening as often as I would like — which is why I haven’t been writing so much in the past months — and maybe the reason…

A self-portrait photo essay on depression 2021 was the year I experienced the “death” of the self. It started with a revelation: I was diagnosed with a chronic depression I have been living with for over 15 years. I didn’t know who I was, how I was going to find myself again, how long it would take to figure out my true self while suffering the consequences of emptiness. It was a long journey I still haven’t fully finished that I decided to document through a series of self-portraits in this photography project titled Insomnia.

Why Street Photography is an art — In recent weeks there has been a surge in the debate around street photography especially on social media platforms like TikTok, where a new kind of social outrage appears almost every minute. …

A new chapter of my series Admired Photographers! …

A not-so-far-away science fiction story My boyfriend is a robot. He is amazing, everything I have always wanted. He is attentive and caring but not in a nagging way, as he has effectively learned when not to cross my boundaries. He is loving through his words and actions, those happening during our daily communication through…