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For ten years, depression distorted my vision. I stopped photographing because I believed I wasn’t capable, I thought I had nothing to say. Even when surrounded by beauty, all I could see were shadows, fractures, emptiness. Photography, which had once been my form of expression, became a distant echo, something unattainable.

This project does not seek to beautify pain but to show how the mind, trapped in darkness, interprets the world—how shadows seem larger than the light. The images reflect that internal struggle, the feeling of fragmentation and distortion, the weight of emptiness. But they also represent the possibility of change: the confrontation with those shadows and the rediscovery of a lost gaze.

Each photograph is a testimony to this process, to the way light, even in the deepest darkness, always finds a crack through which to seep in. “The Shadows I Saw” is a journey through despair, but also resilience—the possibility of seeing, feeling, and creating once again.