DROP PORTRAITS

“It was not the hammer which left perfect these rocks, but the water, with its sweetness, its dance and its song. Where roughness can only destroy, gentleness can sculpt.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

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What happens when the gaze rests on the smallest detail? When a tiny drop becomes a story?

In Drop Portraits, a single, simple detail is isolated, elevated to the role of both main subject and visual narrator. A minuscule element, a droplet on scratched metal, a tear on a cheek, transforms into a universe of its own. Water, the absolute protagonist, is not merely a backdrop but a living presence. Each shot captures a metamorphosis, a fluid archetype flowing through bodies and revealing their inner essence.

Inspired by the words of Rabindranath Tagore: “It was not the hammer that made the rocks so perfect, but the water, with its delicacy, its dance, and its sound,” this photographic project, begun in 2017, uses water as a symbol of transformation, memory, and inner strength. The images depict everyday resilience and continuous metamorphosis, akin to the erosive action of water: a silent change, a capacity to adapt without force, a combination of lightness and strength.

These images flow, layer upon layer, revealing a fragile yet determined beauty — a power emerging from the contrast between light and shadow, fullness and void, silence and matter. A drop, a face, a fragment: each contains the echo of a story in constant evolution, shaping itself and enduring through change.