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 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