SERIES · II FOURTEEN FRAMES · ZÜRICH · 2025
ἀνέλιξις

Unfolding

A series in fourteen frames - a slow Sunday morning, photographed almost by accident.

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A NOTE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER

"Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication."

- STEVE JOBS

For me, a slow Sunday morning with no plans is a rare luxury.

My mind has never quite learned to rest inside one. What my eyes see, it turns into a rushwave of images - frames already half-composed before I have finished my coffee, geometry quietly assembling itself out of the ordinary.

That morning, thankfully, I wasn't alone.

She was there beside me, willing to let the hours move at their own pace. White sheets. Steam from the shower. The kind of light that asks nothing of you and gives back everything.

There was no concept. No mood board. No call sheet. Just a quiet apartment, a woman comfortable enough to fall in and out of sleep, and a camera I couldn't quite put down.

What unfolded - and the word kept arriving - was the morning itself. Bedsheets, breath, water, the small private rituals of a body waking up. Nothing performed. Nothing earned.

Just a Sunday, kept.

Kneeling on the bed in black lace, eyes closed, hand drawing back her hair. PLATE · I
Cross-legged on the bed, head bowed, soft morning light. PLATE · II
Behind the glass of the shower - water droplets, towel turban, eyes closed. PLATE · III
Side profile in the shower, steam softening the marble around her. PLATE · IV
Back to the camera in the shower, lifting the spray to her shoulder. PLATE · V
Towel wrapped high, finger resting on her lower lip, looking straight in. PLATE · VI

"The morning does not need to be earned. Only kept."

Sitting on the edge of the bed in an open shirt, one hand at her collarbone. PLATE · VII
From above - her hair fanned across the pillow, hands at her temples. PLATE · VIII
Sitting against the headboard, light catching her hair. PLATE · IX
Lying on her side at the window, head resting on her arm. PLATE · X
Lying low across the bed, the window blown out behind her in white light. PLATE · XI
Cheek pressed to her forearm, eyes meeting the lens - completely at ease. PLATE · XII
Final frame - kneeling upright on the bed, gaze steady, fully present. PLATE · XIII
ἀρχή

The whole series was, in the end, a single quiet Sunday.

PHOTOGRAPHY
John
SUBJECT & MUSE
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