Altered
The Launch of the Altered Series: A Journey Into the Digital Age of Nature
Lately, I’ve been sitting with a lot of self-doubt. Launching this series feels… scary. It’s not what I usually do.
I’ve always tried to honour the purity of nature — minimal editing, letting the camera speak the truth. But, if I’m honest, I’ve been getting bored in the sea of sameness. The flower photography space feels saturated, full of noise, yet without much meaning. Same setups. Same backdrops. Same tropes.
So, I asked myself: What can I bring that’s different? Something true to me, and still beautiful?
After weeks of experimentation, the Altered series emerged — serendipitous, instinctive, and completely in response to our times.
This series is an exploration of an adapted world, where nature is no longer purely organic. The lines between natural and artificial are increasingly blurred. In a world dominated by AI, digital manipulation, and synthetic everything… the ugliness of fakery - "the grotesque" - becomes more pronounced.
Altered is where natural beauty and the age of edits can coexist, breaking all the rules. It’s a balance: nature’s beauty on display, with edits in moderation. I stop when I see harmony — when the beauty exists in the piece, in its most unforced form. I still believe that beauty has the power to make people stop. To look. Aesthetics aren’t superficial — they’re a language, a tool for connection.
I invite you to celebrate the Altered series with me. It’s a meditation on "the grotesque” made beautiful. A space where artificial colour breathes new life into natural form. Maybe purity isn’t the only path to wonder. The digitally reimagined deserves its own kind of reverence.
We’re all living in an age of edits. This is mine.