About

Xeryon is my way of giving visual form to whatever is going on in my head, especially when reality on its own does not feel like enough. I naturally gravitate toward portraiture, but I am not interested in stopping at what already exists as it is. A lot of my images begin with real photographs and then get pushed further, reshaped, distorted, and rebuilt. I like taking reality and giving it faces, atmospheres, and details that exist first in my imagination and only later in the final image.

I am drawn to images that feel dark, strange, and intriguing. The kind that do not explain themselves immediately, but stay there long enough to deserve a second look. I am interested in making work that is visually striking, but that also leaves some kind of feeling behind, however small, however difficult to name.

I like to limit light, control it, and take away some of its power instead of letting it dominate everything. That is something I often look for in photography: reducing, holding back, making room for shadow, tension, and whatever does not reveal itself straight away. To me, that is where an image really begins to speak.

I do not work only through carefully structured series. A lot of the time I also make standalone images, which then end up in a collection of standalone images, because even chaos needs a drawer to live in. Still, I like thinking of photographs as part of a small coherent universe, even when they come from different moments.

What I would like most is for people to feel curious when they look at my work. Not necessarily some huge revelation or spiritual awakening, just a more honest reaction like: “this would make a great phone wallpaper” or “this looks like an album cover.” If that happens, then something got through.