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I know the place and you don’t. or maybe you do (in progress)beneath the waves there is silencea silent harshness
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A series about the inscrutable motives of human beings. And doubt.
The Place is the unspoken, the misunderstood, the never to be understood. Human connection as a landscape; rough, shouting, and raging, while longing to sink into the earth. Or churning like clouds, with a head full of birds. The thesis and antithesis of rolling ground and sharp, stony sand. The stirring as the wind picks up. All that lies still and straight is so quickly forgotten when a wave comes rolling in. In the middle of the day, there is no shade to hide behind. And when the wind falls still, you stand motionless as a tree, in the wake of your own actions. 
Sometimes man is simply a landscape. Harsh and never, never to be understood.
The Place is also an actual place on a Greek island. The photographer was introduced to The Place by American photographer Raymond Meeks in 2025. The Place immediately gained an almost mythical status. A place that always keeps a secret, a place where you never quite know what to expect. Rude, harsh, windy, dusty, and yet it feels like home, familiar, welcoming. A white side and a black side. Love and hate at the same time. The strongest feeling. 
All photographs in the series were taken at The Place or its immediate surroundings.