Street Photography nominee

Momentum - Study No. 1 was photographed in front of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. The building’s monumental architecture creates a rhythm of light and shadow, almost like the bars of a musical score. In contrast, a woman on her bicycle passes hurriedly across the frame, her fleeting movement set against the stillness of the columns.

The image explores the tension between permanence and transience, the fixed geometry of the urban landscape and the fragile, human moment that slips away the next second. Working in black and white allows me to strip the scene down to its essence, emphasizing form, motion, and atmosphere over detail.

For me, this photograph is not just documentation, but an attempt to preserve a fragment of urban life, where architecture and human presence briefly align into harmony.

I work in black and white because it strips life down to its essence, light, form, and human presence. My photography is rooted in the streets of Stockholm, Paris, and London, where I search for fleeting encounters that reveal something timeless. A face passing by, a cyclist framed against architecture, a gesture that disappears in the next second, these are the fragments I try to preserve.

Coming from a background in music, rhythm and composition remain at the core of my visual language. I see the city as a score: light as melody, shadow as silence, people as improvisations. My Leica Monochrom allows me to translate this into photographs that feel less like documentation and more like echoes of memory.

Photography, to me, is a way of resisting forgetfulness. In a time when images can be generated endlessly, I want my work to stand as proof of presence, imperfect, human, and real. Each frame is both a document of now and an invitation to look back, years from today, at what once was.