Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Portrait »

In my ongoing series, Boys in the Garden, I situate my partner and two teenage sons within imaginary frames of possibility. What does it feel like for those who identify as boys and men to have only been given one story? In the space of the garden, old ideas of patriarchy give way to more generative forces, which complicate notions of gender and identity, individualism and connectedness. Scenes of transformation, fragility, and impermanence in the natural world come to mirror their own stages in life as they negotiate youth and middle age in a shifting cultural landscape. Inspired by art history, fairytale, and myth, I ask them to enact a kind of mock theater, reimagining cultural mythologies of the past while exploring their own stories as they emerge. I come to see this journey as my own, a hybrid recognition of what it means to be human.