13 miles

(2025 - ongoing)

Past the last houses, the world felt endless.
Where the known faded, everything began to breathe.
Still moving, along silent traces.

13 Miles is a photographic exploration of the landscape closest to home. The project originates from a formative experience of growing up in the countryside, where travelling by bicycle gradually defined the limits of my world. Rather than seeing these limits as restrictions, I have come to understand them as the place where my way of looking was formed.

Working within a self-imposed radius of thirteen miles around my home, I return repeatedly to the same roads, fields, woodland edges, and overlooked places. I am not searching for remarkable locations, but for the subtle shifts that reveal themselves through familiarity and repetition. The landscape becomes a place of attentive observation, where traces of human presence quietly emerge through use, maintenance, and absence.

People rarely appear in these photographs, yet they are never entirely gone. Their presence lingers in paths that are worn, objects that have been left behind, and places that seem to hold the memory of those who passed through them. What is absent becomes as significant as what is visible.

The thirteen-mile boundary is both a practical framework and a psychological one. By remaining close to home, I discover that distance is not only measured geographically, but also through memory, attachment, and time. Together, the photographs form a portrait of a familiar territory that continues to reveal itself—suggesting that the places we know best often contain the deepest mysteries.

Interactive exhibition

This project will result in an interactive exhibtion in 2027 in the 13 miles area I photopgraphed. You can find more information via https://13-miles.com/