Astronauts in Tin is a part of a photographic series exploring the world of cosplay and its surreal tension between fiction and selfhood. The work reveals how costumed personas become tools for escapism, identity play, and psychological release - celebrating transformation. The project unveils a world where imagination reclaims space, adulthood bends, and the boundaries between reality and fantasy are deliberately blurred.

This photograph is part of Legs, a series made in Ukraine that investigates the dehumanizing dynamics of war photography. By allowing the boundaries
between subject and environment to dissolve, the work examines how individuals are often reduced to abstractions, stripped of identity and context. It critiques the tendency of conflict imagery to blur humanity into landscape, inviting reflection on what is seen-and overlooked-when documenting war.

Wiljo's 60 years can be read not only on her skin but also in the quiet resignation of a life diminished by isolation and the slow sedation of medication. She carries the physical weight of 90 years, but it is a body disconnected from the person it once was. In a society that values vitality and productivity, people like Wiljo live on the margins, unseen and unheard.
uder is not only an internal process, but also a social condition - shaped by the passage of time as well as by how society treats the elderly.

This project is an embodied journey through my mother’s past as a former nun, tracing her life across Europe through her diaries. By revisiting monasteries now turned into wellness centres, meeting displaced nuns, and walking her path from Paris to Amsterdam, the project explores themes like care, belief, and female resilience. It’s a personal and political archaeology of womanhood, memory, and identity - uncovering my mothers a hidden identity to understand my own.