Interventions is an ongoing photographic series that addresses key phenomena of our time: political violence, transnational social and ecological crises, and their representation through the media.

The work is based on analog, staged scenarios that visually resemble documentary photography but deliberately subvert its conventions. Rather than functioning as traditional documentation, these images operate as abstracted prototypes of global societal realities and crises. They reference real events without reenacting them, aiming instead for a visual condensation — a blueprint that gestures beyond the specific toward structural and systemic dynamics.

By employing the method of staging, I retain full control over image composition and narrative. The scenes are not tied to specific locations or identifiable individuals, thus avoiding the mechanisms of selective attention. Instead, they open an associative space where universal questions can be negotiated.

A core concern of the work is the image’s own construction and the interrogation of its perceived credibility. The photographs invite viewers to question their own visual perception and confront issues of authenticity, objectivity, and the ethical responsibility of image-making.

Each image bears its date of capture as its title — a deliberate gesture that implies a documentary reading. And while the scenes truly occurred, they did so as artistic interventions in public space, not as outcomes of real-world events. For unsuspecting passersby, these stagings felt real: a hut burning in a field, a supposed prisoner being led through the street…

In a time when artificial intelligence can generate endless new visual worlds, the process of creating images “in reality” gains renewed importance. So too does the question of what we perceive as real — and the ambiguities that result from this tension.

Interventions is a process-based project that will evolve over several years. Completion is planned for 2026.