These 5 images are part of one series ‘Moving windows’. They are digital collages, made from original photograms and original photographs. 

The images I create are not about the realism of a place, a face or a memory. But to the contrary allow me to invent, imagine and share not a precise account of somewhere, something or someone but change the view of an existing place, modifying a part of it with my memory and experience of another. 

I see photography as so much more, then a realistic account. Because I create these images freed from what I see as constrains of ‘classical photography’.
Every single image, moment, I capture is a canvas, waiting to be modified, to evolve into something else. I use photography as a way to create, and look at spaces. Bring spatial experiences onto surfaces, and give physicality to images. It is about the materiality of the paper, the depth of a space. 

This specific series, is about just that. In September 2020, I started noticing round windows, like the one my childhood bedroom everywhere.  I looked at them with nostalgia and homesickness. It made me think about this house, the role it played in my love for space. I started photographing all of them.

By creating these collages with photograms ( old analog printing technic where instead of exposing a negative you expose an object/volume) of models in movement and the photographs of windows. I am mixing the old and the new, adding my memory to an existing space, creating something compelling else. Making it into abstract images of a spaces and not a photographs of  places. These images are both very real and completely imagined. But those spaces are not recreated they are created and exist for me and the viewer in those images for a moment. 

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Daria Lou Nakov