Photo Series –

Transitional Spaces and “Non-Places”

Absent Present explores the tension between the experience of movement and the perception of place.

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Composed from photographs taken through bus windows, the series captures fragments of the city filtered by motion, transparency, and reflection.

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These images reveal transitional spaces — the “non-places” described by Marc Augé — where individuals pass through without truly inhabiting, and where the landscape merges with memory.

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Between inside and outside, between subject and surface, photography becomes the witness of a paradoxical presence: that of the absent body observing, and of the city reflecting on the glass like an apparition.

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Reflections, raindrops, and distortions caused by speed transform these ordinary scenes into mental landscapes, where light becomes a metaphor for passage and loss.

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Thus, Absent Present offers a reflection on mobility, anonymity, and the poetry of the everyday, where the image becomes an in-between space — neither here nor elsewhere.