A photography project — 2018 — present
Madonna
& Bloom
Europe · South America · Africa · and beyond
Between 2018 and 2025, across walks taken on multiple continents, the same two subjects kept appearing. Madonnas on walls, in niches, in city corners. Flowers found separately — through cracks, over gates, in jungles, in places nobody planned. Always alive. Never decaying. Simply insisting.
The Madonnas here are not religious icons. They are archetypes — figures onto which every culture has projected the feminine ideal. The flowers were found elsewhere, on other walks, indifferent to expectation. The connection between them was made by the photographer alone — which is, perhaps, what the work is really about.
Together they trace five emotional states that any woman knows. The first stirring of self. The years of searching — edgy, unraveling, gloriously lost. The rupture that changes everything. The unexpected tenderness that follows. And finally, abundance — rooted, open, fully alive.
This is not a book about what is placed on women.
It is a book about what grows anyway.
Selected works
