My camera has always been a therapeutic tool for me. I use it to navigate and process emotion, trauma and personal growth—both my own and of the people I am photographing.

Over multiple years, we have collected and come to rely on a unique combination of equipment, which allows us to produce hand-crafted, small edition books entirely in our own studio.

You should never present something that you are not satisfied with or don’t like. It has a strong chance of being retained, even of being a success. Simultaneously, however, you should always appreciate the sketches, especially those first ones.

I could have made easy work that was simple to place and appreciate. Instead, I decided to make a big deal of this moment and tackled overly ambitious designs that most would advise against given their size and unwieldy materials.

My self-published short comic book Au travers du rayon marries cinema, a field which I studied at university and thus a culture from which I come, and comics.

My paintings tend to borrow from architectural motifs—I’m always going on walks and taking pictures of buildings that capture my eye—and end up looking like colorful but vacant stages, altars or building facades.

Water had taught me to be more fluid in life. It invited me to wash away the things that so needed to be washed away.

I consistently try to put emphasis on two of Ormaie’s principles: craftsmanship and raw materials. Those same things guide me in my own work and serve as a canvas for all of my shoots for them.

Creating and sharing work amidst a global pandemic has encouraged us to welcome uncertainty. Letting go of control is hard. Exhibiting artworks without knowing what is going to happen is both terrifying and nerve-racking.

Timelessness and mystery are qualities I always strive for. I take pleasure in creating the effect of a layered, edited image organically through the use of reflection and light.

Our conversations gave me insight into his personality and affected how I later directed and photographed him. Through this shoot, I learned that spending time with an artist gives you a crucial understanding of the person, their motivations and wishes.

The visual representation of human gestures is also what interests me the most these days so I decided to show those simple gestures through a series of frames.