Research Archives
Infrared series from the road — the Levant, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Egypt, Southeast Asia. Each story is a short essay and a set of plates, photographed in extended spectrum: 590nm, 720nm, 850nm, IR Chrome. The visible version of these places has been photographed to exhaustion; this is the other archive.
Road to Damascus
Beirut to Damascus, 2023 — Levantine heritage read in infrared, between what survived and what was destroyed on camera.
Lebanon · Syria · 2023 · 590nm · 720nm · IR Chrome
Generations of Damascus
Damascus in infrared, 2023 — childhood, working age and old age, three passes through the same streets.
Damascus, Syria · 2023 · 590nm · IR Chrome · B&W
The Cradle of Civilization
Three hills where a beginning was excavated, invented, or simply walked away from — Neolithic Çatalhöyük, nine-layered Troy, and Urartian Erebuni.
Turkey · Armenia · 2021–2025 · colour infrared · 720nm
Where the Living Remember the Dead
The Valley of the Kings as a working site — archaeologists and fellaheen keeping a passage open between the living and those who went before, seen in infrared.
Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt · infrared
Lux Perpetua
An infrared camera inside the temple ritual — candle heat on the faces of the praying, the light the Requiem promised and the eye was never meant to see.
St Petersburg · Armenia · Tbilisi · Bangkok · Dalat · 2023–2025
Corvus Mechanicus
Thirteen ravens from a Bangkok park — and a word that, in Russian, has never meant only a bird.
Lumpini Park, Bangkok · 2026 · infrared B&W
Herbert’s Dream
Dune read through the invisible spectrum, staged in the Sarykum dunes and Sulak canyon of Dagestan, standing in for Arrakis — heroes, resource wars and the litany against fear.
Sarykum dunes · Sulak canyon · Dagestan, Russia · March–April 2024 · infrared B&W · visible
Egypt — Modern Miracles
Pyramids aligned to stars, temples calculated to the day, an afterlife mapped with such precision a soul could navigate it from memory — read in infrared.
Giza · Karnak · Luxor · Ramesseum · Abu Simbel · Egypt · January 2023 · infrared, false color · IRChrome