Accidental portraits (2020) are a series of photographs inspired by a tragedy. “My family’s photo archive was destroyed in a fire a long time ago. Only a small number of burnt, torn, partially destroyed photographs remained. The small nostalgic photos inspired me to work on a new genre that would give me the same feelings as the photos that survived from the fire. I try to create this mood in accidental portraits that I see every day. When I browse through my old family album and touch the photographs, I feel some exceptional energy condensed in them. I always wanted to recreate this very effect of palpable, intimate experience in my photography. That’s the main reason I decided to print my shots under the red light. Darkroom is the best place for this type of experimentation. In this process I am discovering a hidden, parallel world that is very dear to me, especially, because we live in a digital era and in the deficiency of tangible photography.”