M.V. Baks
Alter modernism - where technology meets nature
Photography
A photography portfolio capturing surreal, poetic fragments of everyday life — from spontaneous street moments to intimate conceptual series. By M.V. Baks.
Photography, for me, is a practice of attention.
Some moments appear on their own — small coincidences, strange details, quiet contrasts that reveal themselves when I slow down and look. Other works are staged: constructed scenes, collaborations, or conceptual explorations. Both forms belong to my practice, but for different reasons.
The unstaged images are observations: fragments of the world as it presents itself.
The staged series are investigations: controlled environments where an idea, a gesture or a tension can unfold more deliberately.
I photograph to share the moments of wonder I encounter — the ones that ask to be seen, even if only for a second.
This portfolio brings those two streams together:
the unplanned and the intentional, the discovered and the constructed, placed side by side so you can follow the way my eye moves through the world.
Selection