my name is Viktoria, and I can’t sit still. something is always pulling me somewhere – somewhere I can wander past
the edges of my own comfort.


I search for forms and spaces that let me feel, sense, simply
be – without compromise. nature is a kind of catalyst;
it unleashes my deepest states. all the emotional charge
of a given moment, I place into photographs. the frames become a harbor for the senses. in them I seal the pure resonance
of those moments, so I can call it back at any time – even when
I’m already somewhere else entirely, in another time.

isn’t photography the only way to defy
impermanence and brazenly cheat time?


I take pictures to save and remember a little more.
It’s my own dialogue with saudade. that fragile presence of a moment already gone, the one I carry beneath my eyelids. I love returning to those stilled seconds, reading old emotions anew, replaying
at full force the feelings that once took hold of me.

about
me

© Viktoria Kołtowska

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