Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Still Life »

If photography is the act of writing with light, these images do so in an unexpected way. They do not show what the human eye sees, but what ultraviolet light reveals when it meets glass: secrets the material has carried for decades. During my research I discovered that some bottles, many of them antique, reacted to UV by glowing as if they were light sources themselves. Forged with “native earths” sensitive to specific frequencies, they hold traces of a forgotten chemical and artisanal history. The greatest surprise came when a luminescent bottle was placed near others that, on their own, did not shine: a kind of luminous contagion, a chromatic resonance that shifted with distance, shape, and the composition of the glass. It is in this threshold between visible and invisible, between body and frequency, between the ancient and the new, that the series takes form. To Shine with One’s Own Light becomes a story of transformation: a light that rises from within, expands, and alters whatever it encounters, revealing that even the quietest objects can become emissaries of an unexpected radiance. And just as the glass changes under light, so does our gaze: every shift in luminosity transforms what we see, and in that transformation, something in us moves as well.

“Light doesn’t reveal things; it transforms them. And in that transformation, it sometimes reveals us to ourselves.”