The negative ritual

Negative Ritual is a body of work rooted in landscape, memory, and the quiet pull of the in-between. It blends black and white street photography with nature studies, fine art processes, and self-developed techniques—each image unfolding like a fragment or trace. Themes of absence, time, and stillness run through the work, often circling back to familiar places seen through a changed lens.

Portraits and commissions are approached with the same quiet intensity, favouring atmosphere over spectacle. There’s an undercurrent of ritual in the way the images are made and chosen—less about the moment and more about the echo it leaves behind.

Some say the work carries a charge, that viewing it too long invites visions or stirs something buried. Portraits are rare and often unsettling, as if they reveal more than the subject offered. Each image is a fragment of a larger pattern, though no full picture has ever been confirmed. Whether artist, archivist, or quiet conjurer of the in-between, Negative Ritual leaves behind no answers—only traces.