I use photography to build visual essays: quiet, layered stories shaped by memory, care, and the emotional traces we inherit. Rooted in analogue processes and tactile techniques like hand-binding and alternative printing, my work merges original imagery with archival materials, diary fragments, and domestic objects. Each project becomes a personal constellation of feeling, observation, and reflection.

I’m drawn to overlooked narratives, especially those passed down in subtle, unspoken ways. I see my practice as an act of emotional research: intuitive but intentional, shaped as much by inner landscapes as by lived experience. I aim to create visual languages that honour softness, vulnerability, and the passage of time.

My work doesn’t document in a traditional sense. Instead, it listens, collects, and reshapes. It asks not just what we remember, but how we carry those memories and feelings forward.

Dagmara Metel