LAX Laboratorium | Photography Collections

Solitude is a visual research into the space between departure and arrival; a state in which identity is no longer fixed, yet has not fully taken another form. Rather than treating solitude as isolation, the work approaches it as a condition of heightened perception, where the self becomes both witness and subject. Across fragments of time, place, and experience, the photographs record the quiet negotiations through which a life continuously becomes itself.

Roots & Ladders traces the interplay between land and water through the intricate forms of tangled roots and towering ancient trees. The work approaches plant life as a structure of relation, simultaneously anchored and in constant exchange with its surroundings. What appears rooted and still is, in fact, part of a continuous movement of growth, exchange, and decay.

On The Road is a limited edition of still frames from the short film FLUX: On The Road. The work questions the division between subject and object by treating the road not as a passage between places, but as a field in which observer and observee continually exchange roles.

Traces observes the trails left upon the land by years of accumulated movement. Erosion, passage, displacement, and repetition leave behind patterns that appear accidental yet carry their own quiet consistency; evidence of what has passed through. The collection approaches these traces as a kind of unwritten history, where time becomes tangible through what remains.

SevenSeas follows water across oceans, seas, and rivers as a continuous body that refuses the borders imposed upon it. Geography divides its surfaces into names and territories, while the element itself remains in perpetual circulation. The series considers water as a model of existence in which movement is the condition through which continuity is maintained.

Ritipanna documents the endangered method of fishing, unique to Sri Lanka, rooted in a harmonious connection to the sea. The fishermen hover between land and water, occupying a threshold where livelihood, ritual, and landscape become inseparable. In a practice increasingly threatened by changing environmental conditions and economies, the images become a record of a particular way of inhabiting the boundary between livelihood, culture, and the sea.

Into The Wild is a photographic archive inspired by a recurring pull toward places where the human presence becomes quieter and the land takes precedence. Desert, mountain, jungle, ocean, and sky appear as variations within a larger inquiry into humanity's relationship with the nature, while the series become a record of repeatedly returning to the question of what reciprocity means. “Wilderness” is not necessarily a place untouched by humanity; for many Indigenous peoples, land is not wilderness at all, but home, kin, memory, and living relation. The series lingers within this tension, asking what it means to enter a landscape not as a spectator, but as a passenger, a temporary inhabitant of something that was already there and will remain after we leave.

Amazonia is a photographic encounter with the riverbanks and rainforest of the Peruvian Amazon, where water, vegetation, weather, light, and human presence exist in an ever-shifting rhythm. The work moves between the intimate and the immense, drawn toward the density of a landscape that breathes beyond the limits of the frame.

Bound/Less follows water across lands shaped, carved, crossed, and transformed by its movement. From canyons to rivers and waterfalls, the work observes an element that is constantly taking form while never remaining within it. Water accepts every boundary as a temporary condition, flowing around it, through it, over it, and eventually beyond it. In this perpetual movement lies its paradox: unbounded, yet always in relation to the world it passes through.

Kinesis & Inertia examines the tension between movement and resistance through the language of the earth. Soil, stone, mountains, and deserts become evidence of forces operating across radically different scales of time; from the imperceptible to the geological. The series considers stillness as accumulated movement: matter carrying within its apparent permanence the memory of everything that has acted upon it.

White Heat follows the white peaks of the mountain ranges suspended between immensity and silence. The frames confront the limits of human scale against geological formations that exceed individual lifetimes, while snow and ice introduce a more fragile temporality into their apparent permanence. The mountains become less an object of conquest than a measure of duration, reminding the body of its own brief position.

Yesterday gathers fleeting encounters in which past seems to momentarily repeat itself: an atmosphere, a gesture, a fragment of architecture, a beam of light that feels instinctively familiar. Moving between near and distant pasts, through urban details and inexplicable moments of déjà vu, the series considers memory not as a reliable archive, but as a porous space where experience, anticipation, and recollection overlap. It is an imperfect archive of what has been, where memory transforms ordinary moments into something that continues to exist beyond their time.

Land of a Thousand Tomorrows is a collection born from encounters across India; from rituals, landscapes, architecture, faces, colours, and fleeting everyday moments. The frames move between the unfamiliar and the strangely familiar, between what is witnessed and what is imagined, a multitude of impressions that remain long after the journey has ended.

LavaDreams brings together photographic encounters with volcanic landscapes, where the Earth’s inner forces become visible on its surface. Shaped by heat, pressure, and time, these terrains hold traces of transformation; worlds caught between formation and dissolution. The photographs linger within this tension, where the ground beneath our feet reveals itself not as something fixed, but as a living process of becoming.

TektoniKa is a photographic archive observing the forces, rhythms, geometries, and spatial tensions through which light and void shape the experience of space. Between permanence and transformation, the built environment becomes another form of landscape; shaped by human presence, yet continually altered by time, light, and perception.

CyanoAmazonia is a sunprint photography collection born along the riverbanks of the Amazon rainforest. Multiple still frames are woven together, juxtaposing interiors, exteriors, landscapes, and traces of human presence, creating alternative realities where distant moments and places begin to coexist. The collection explores how nature can become a way of seeing; carrying the spirit of the jungle beyond its physical boundaries.