REEL MAN

Reel Human is an ongoing series of photographs built around a single silhouette — a generic human figure, hand-cut from an A4 sheet of paper. The universal pictogram. Functional, neutral, stripped of everything that makes a person specific.

Then the world shows up.

Flowers, skin, food, fabric, light, found objects. Each encounter pushes back against the abstraction — not to destroy it, but to complicate it. The pictogram is useful precisely because it simplifies. The problem begins when the simplification becomes a prescription.

The images are taken on a phone, without controlled lighting or formal intent. The paper accumulates the traces of the process — creased, stained, altered by handling. It starts immaculate. It doesn't stay that way.

Started as self-portraits, the series gradually expanded to include family and friends, and has since grown beyond any single person. The figure is a starting point, not a destination.

Reel Human is a confrontation between an idea of the human being — simplified, schematic, universal — and the stubborn, organic, irreducible reality of the world it lives in.