I am pleased to share that MANILA WORKER has found a new collector in New York, continuing the international journey of this series.

The series was created after I had lived in the Philippines for several years and became fascinated by the people shaping the rapidly developing Manila skyline. The photographs portray construction workers in downtown Manila and their traditional ways of protecting themselves from the intense sun, heat and dust.

Working behind construction-site barriers, these workers are often largely unnoticed by the people passing through the city. With my series, I wanted to bring these individuals into focus and give them a small stage of their own. The project culminated in a photo installation at the Ayala Artist Space in Manila in 2018, presenting the workers not simply as anonymous figures within a construction site, but as individuals contributing to the transformation of the city.

MANILA WORKER was subsequently recognised with an Honorable Mention at the 2019 International Photography Awards (IPA) in the Fine Art Portrait category.

Today, seeing the work enter a private collection in New York is particularly meaningful. From the streets and construction sites of Manila to an international audience and now a new home in New York, the photograph continues its journey while retaining its connection to the people and city that inspired it.

I am grateful to the new collector for giving MANILA WORKER a new place within their collection.

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I am pleased to share a recent corporate art commission for a New York City office, developed in collaboration with Carpe Diem Art Consulting. The selection brings together six works from my Fluid Horizon and Rainy Days series, creating a visual dialogue between abstraction, urban environments, movement and atmosphere.

The commissioned works include:

• FLUID HORIZON IV
• FLUID HORIZON XXIV
• RAINY DAYS NEW YORK VI
• RAINY DAYS NEW YORK XI
• RAINY DAYS NEW YORK XII
• RAINY DAYS HONG KONG IX

The Fluid Horizon works explore the transformation of landscape and perception through layers, reflections and abstract photographic imagery. Inspired by water and the shifting boundary between sky, surface and horizon, the series reduces the landscape to a more atmospheric and contemplative visual experience.

The Rainy Days works turn the energy of major cities into layered compositions of reflections, movement and light. The fleeting impressions created by rain, architecture, people and urban activity.

Together, the six artworks create a cohesive yet varied installation, bringing colour, movement and a sense of visual depth into the corporate environment. The combination of abstract horizons and dynamic city scenes reflects my broader practice, which explores how photography can move beyond documentation.

I am grateful to Carpe Diem Art Consulting for bringing this project together and for selecting my work for this New York City corporate collection.

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MOTION STATES is a 15-minute video artwork filmed in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2018, and presented as a video screening as part of my MOTION STATES exhibition at Creative Game Gallery, Berlin in 2025.

Filmed within Java Jazz Festival Jakarta, the work observes movement, people, light, blur and fleeting moments. Rather than following a conventional narrative, the video focuses on the visual rhythm of the scene and venue and the constantly changing relationship between human presence and space.

The camera becomes an observing presence, capturing fragments of movement and transforming visitors into an atmospheric and abstract visual experience. Blurring, repetition, rhythm and shifting perspectives connect the moving image with my broader photographic practice.

MOTION STATES reflects my ongoing interest in movement, perception, memory and the transformation of photographic imagery into a more immersive visual experience.

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I’m pleased to share that my work WATCHTOWER XCIX has been featured in Singulart’s curated collection “Zurück in der Stadt” (“Back to the City”), celebrating contemporary artworks inspired by the energy, rhythm, and visual character of urban life.

The collection brings together works that explore the city through bold lines, strong contrasts, architectural forms, abstract compositions, and new perspectives. This focus closely connects with my own artistic practice and my ongoing exploration of the modern city as a space of movement, structure, atmosphere, and human interaction.

With WATCHTOWER XCIX, I continue to investigate how urban environments can be transformed through photography and abstraction. Rather than simply documenting architecture, my work seeks to reinterpret the visual experience of the city—reducing familiar structures into dynamic compositions and inviting the viewer to discover new relationships between form, space, and perspective.

Being included in this Singulart collection is a wonderful opportunity to present my work alongside an international selection artists responding to the constantly changing urban landscape.

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My participation reflects an important aspect of my own artistic practice, which moves between photography, digital printing, mixed media and contemporary graphic art. My work explores how photographic images can be transformed through processes of layering, abstraction, manipulation and physical production, creating works that occupy a space between photography, painting and printmaking.

What makes Mapping Printmaking particularly interesting is its understanding of printmaking as an expanded and evolving field. Rather than treating traditional engraving and contemporary digital processes as separate disciplines, the project examines their relationships and the ways technological developments have transformed artistic production.

The book is conceived as an open, continuously developing resource, bringing together artists, artworks, techniques and countries from around the world. Its long-term ambition extends beyond documentation, with the potential to encourage international collaborations, exchanges, workshops, exhibitions and future projects, including a possible virtual international biennial of graphic art.

The project also raises important questions about how digital technologies, photographic processes and contemporary forms of reproduction are changing our understanding of the printed artwork. In an increasingly connected global art world, printmaking is no longer restricted to traditional techniques or physical boundaries. It has become a fluid field in which analogue; photographic and digital processes increasingly overlap.

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One of the highlights was the exhibition dedicated to F. C. Gundlach at the Bucerius Kunst Forum. As one of Germany’s most influential fashion and portrait photographers, Gundlach’s work reflects both elegance and innovation. The exhibition traced his career through iconic images, revealing his lasting impact on fashion photography and his role in shaping the visual culture of post-war Germany. His ability to combine technical precision with narrative composition remains deeply inspiring.

The visit continued at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, where F. C. Gundlach’s legacy extends beyond his own work. As the founder of the House of Photography, his vision helped establish Deichtorhallen as one of Europe’s foremost institutions for photographic art. The exhibitions on display reflected this commitment, presenting a rich dialogue between historical and contemporary photography while embracing installation, conceptual practice, and new visual languages.

Another inspiring stop was the Hamburger Kunsthalle, where photography is presented in conversation with painting, sculpture, and graphic arts. This interdisciplinary approach reinforces the medium’s place within the broader history of visual culture.

As an visual artist, I found the Triennial especially rewarding. The exhibitions highlighted how contemporary photography continues to move beyond documentation, embracing abstraction, material experimentation, and emotional storytelling. It was an inspiring reminder of photography’s evolving possibilities and of Hamburg’s important role as an international centre for photographic culture.

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NINE OCEANS began as an experimental cyanotype created by using water as both subject and creative medium. The organic textures and deep blue tones of the cyanotype were later combined with my ocean photographs, resulting in a layered mixed-media work that expands traditional photographic processes.

Through an abstract visual language, the work explores the sea not as a specific location, but as a universal space of memory, stillness, and contemplation.

I’m grateful to the Artfinder curatorial team for featuring NINE OCEANS and for introducing the work to collectors and art enthusiasts around the world.

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The feature explores my approach to photography as a medium that moves beyond documentation toward atmosphere, abstraction, and emotional perception. The interview highlights my ongoing interest in combining photographic imagery with painterly processes, layering movement, blur, texture, and spatial rhythm to create works that exist between photography and contemporary painting.

It is always meaningful to see the ideas behind the work discussed in an international cultural context. The article reflects on themes central to my practice: perception, memory, urban transformation, and the tension between clarity and dissolution. It also touches on my multidisciplinary background and long-term engagement with photography, printmaking, and visual experimentation.

I’m grateful to GP Magazine and the editorial team of Marisa Lacopino for the thoughtful feature and for presenting my work to a wider Italian audience.

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Measuring 200 x 100 cm, Human Order VII occupies the wall with a assertive presence. The work is part of my ongoing exploration of urban movement, structure, and collective presence. The work reflects on the subtle systems that shape contemporary city life—how individuals move within architectural grids, how order emerges from apparent chaos, and how rhythm defines metropolitan experience.

Through layered photographic elements and a carefully balanced composition, the piece oscillates between abstraction and figuration, inviting viewers to look closer and discover shifting perspectives.Blurred figures intersect within an architectural framework, suggesting both autonomy and choreography — a visual metaphor for the invisible patterns that shape urban life.

Produced as a museum-quality face-mount, the photograph is sealed behind acrylic glass and mounted on aludibond with a precision wooden frame. This presentation intensifies depth, contrast, and luminosity, allowing the layered motion within the image to unfold with clarity and spatial resonance. The reflective surface subtly interacts with the surrounding light of the Lounge, integrating the artwork into the atmosphere of the space.

This commission marks an exciting collaboration between contemporary art and hospitality design—an opportunity to integrate conceptual photography into a space defined by elegance, comfort, and international exchange. I’m honored that Human Order VII now forms part of the Conrad Hamburg’s visual identity.

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This exhibition illuminates humanity and humanity from personal, cultural, technological, regional and political perspectives, and explores a new humanism for our times. The works come in a variety of media, including photography, painting, video art, interactive art, sculpture, and installation art.

The curators introduction:
Photographer Sven Pfrommer has made the act of observing people in motion a central focus of his artistic work. With his long-running series HUMAN BLUR, he explores urban spaces where he, as the photographer, remains the only static element—watching as crowds flow past in a stream of kinetic energy.

These fleeting moments, charged with human energy, are captured through motion blur—transforming bustling individuals into abstract forms. People move through streets, stations, and public events seemingly without purpose, unaware of the silent observer in their midst. Though movement cannot be stopped, it can be recorded—distilled into images that offer only a hint of identity.

Pfrommer’s color-saturated, blurred compositions render figures anonymous. Contours dissolve; personalities disappear. What remains are silhouettes—reduced to form, light, and color. This deliberate abstraction dematerializes the individual, turning them into graphic elements shaped by overlapping layers and shifting shadows.

Since 2002, Pfrommer has continuously developed the HUMAN BLUR series, receiving international recognition for his distinctive visual language. His work examines the tension between presence and absence, permanence and transience—inviting viewers to reflect on the fleeting nature of human existence in contemporary urban life.

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CICA Museum
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA)
January 21 – February 8, 2026
https://cicamuseum.com

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