Intent over location

For a long time, my photography followed a familiar path.
Interesting places. Recognisable scenes. Moments that felt worth capturing because of where they happened.

It worked, for a while. The images were well received, and they looked impressive on the surface. But over time, something began to feel off. I was collecting places, not building ideas. The photographs existed individually, but they rarely spoke to each other.

That disconnect slowly became impossible to ignore.

What mattered to me was not where an image was made, but what it was exploring. Light, form, rhythm, contrast, stillness. The quiet tension between order and abstraction. The emotional response an image creates once it leaves the moment it was taken.

LensArt is built around collections because collections allow ideas to develop. They allow images to breathe together rather than compete for attention. Each one begins with a feeling, a visual curiosity, or a question I want to explore, long before a final image is selected.

Some photographs within a collection are taken minutes apart. Others are captured months later in entirely different locations. Geography becomes secondary. Intent does not.

A collection is not a set of similar images. It is a conversation. Between light and shadow. Between structure and softness. Between what is immediately recognisable and what asks you to look again.

That is also why these collections are being released slowly. They are not designed to be consumed in a single scroll or understood at a glance. Each one reveals itself over time, inviting you to pause, explore, and follow the thread that connects the work.

This approach has allowed me to work more intuitively and more honestly. The camera becomes a tool for interpretation rather than documentation. The result is photography that feels cohesive, purposeful, and personal, without needing explanation.

Over the coming weeks, each collection will explore a different facet of this way of seeing. Some will feel bold and graphic. Others quieter and more contemplative. All of them are shaped by intent rather than location.

LensArt is not about ticking places off a list.
It is about creating work that holds together, visually and emotionally, with purpose.