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THE “ANTI-DOCUMENT”

Photography isn't just a document.

It is not a document at all as its hidden parts are greater than its visible ones.

For me a photograph is an "anti-document" as it reveals nothing of the true lived event in the past.

A photograph is only a trigger to the bringing to life of a whole set of images kept in one's memory.

What we take with our camera is what we want to remember for the rest of our lives yet not necessarily what really happened.

this is the tragic fact about photography.

Identity grows like a mosaic of moments—
first shaped in the gentle orbit of childhood,
then altered by experience, choice, and the bonds we keep or release.
Each piece, accepted or refused, becomes part of our unfolding design.

And within this design, a woman’s identity forms along its own quiet currents.
She moves through attraction, thought, pain, strength, and tenderness
in patterns that echo differently than a man’s.
Her smile carries meanings unspoken;
her resilience forms its own silent architecture.

These elements create an exclusively feminine lexicon—
a language of nuance and intuition,
a way of being that cannot be translated but only lived.

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