PROJECT
Everyday Surrealism
We rarely question what we see. We simply accept it as reality.
Everyday Surrealism explores what happens when we stop accepting reality at first glance — those fleeting moments when something ordinary suddenly feels slightly wrong, absurd, poetic or uncanny.
The photographs are not staged. They emerge from the unpredictable relationship between people and their surroundings, when reflections, shadows, perspective, camouflage, visual coincidences or trompe-l’œil briefly alter what we think we are seeing. A human body can seem to belong to another space; an ordinary gesture can acquire a completely different meaning through its environment; everyday life and advertising can collide in a single frame and create something unexpectedly surreal.
Rather than telling individual anecdotes, the project is about a way of looking. It is an attempt to notice the anomalies hidden in familiar places and to photograph the precise moment when the ordinary slips out of place.
At the centre of these images is often a human presence — sometimes clearly visible, sometimes partially absorbed by the landscape or architecture. The person is not simply a subject, but part of the visual mechanism that creates the illusion. The surrealism comes from the encounter between body, place and chance.
In this sense, the camera does not create the strange. It discovers it. Everyday Surrealism is a collection of moments in which reality remains entirely real, yet becomes impossible to take at face value.
