diary. | Szami

The diary began in 2019 as a photographic journal updated daily. The spontaneous uploading of images to Instagram brought with it the realization that something was beginning to come together and form a coherent whole. The location appearing on Instagram (Somewhere on Earth) suggests that the objects, places, situations, portraits, and phenomena found in the series can be found anywhere in the world. The use of light in the snapshots is intended to highlight everyday events from their surroundings, thereby rewriting them with new meaning.

The images, created and published day by day, began to form a series in which new sequences appeared one after another. The realization that these seemingly unrelated images function coherently is not merely a formal motif, as they reflect on each other in completely diverse ways in different selections based on different organizing principles. The diary. photo series began as a classic documentary work, which expanded into a photo essay during the work process. The images are not intended to provide answers, but rather to raise questions and point to things that are already known and easily interpretable, based on new interpretative mechanisms.