As a pediatric surgeon, I work daily in an environment where emotions, vulnerability, and responsibility play a significant role. Photography offers me a way to process these experiences while simultaneously fulfilling my need for creativity. In my work, I seek ways to view the world from a different perspective. By abstracting images or placing them in unexpected contexts, I strip them of their self-evident meaning, creating space for interpretation. Additionally, I manipulate portraits to intensify the emotional resonance of the image and make feelings more visible.

Heartbeat

As a pediatric surgeon, I have hands that heal, hands that comfort, hold, protect, and strive to make a future possible for seriously ill children. Yet, these are the same hands that cut, make incisions, and inevitably cross the physical boundaries of another person. Inside the operating room, this contradiction is rarely voiced. Surgery is a technical discipline driven by knowledge, skill, and control. Yet, uncertainty lurks behind every procedure. Complications are never merely statistics; they affect patients, but certainly also those responsible for their care. This work explores the traces that such responsibility leaves on the practitioners themselves. The consequences of a successful surgery, and even more so, of a mistake or an unexpected outcome, do not vanish once the operation is over. They become part of a personal and collective memory that often remains hidden behind a professional exterior.

Here, somewhere between strength and vulnerability.