About
 

Photography is the extension of sight. When you choose a photographer you simply accept his vision of the World. Photography is deeply subjective, it's a choice, a framing, a story that the photographer tell in one image. Liking a photographer is liking the way he looks at the world.

Who Am I ?

As a 33 year old adventurer, I am one of those people that could never fit in a box. After graduating from my design diploma in 2009, I embarked on a journey to Australia… And for 10 years I kept on exploring. Since then, I’ve been driven by my thirst for new knowledge, for understanding and seeing things from my own eyes. 

I always admired the work of war photo reporters, and that’s what first pushed me to see the darker side of the world, the subversive topics, the kind that speak of a tarnished truth we would rather ignored. However, every time I went on exploring the darkness, I could only see the beauty of the world around me. That’s when it hit me : my job as a photographer isn’t to capture the darkness, but to bring forth the essence of the light within them.

That’s what I want to share : being able to see the precious when everything seems scarce, the whole in emptiness, the poesy to be found in a single instant. My approach as a photographer is that of the photojournalist : I want to bring pictures to life instead of trying to freeze them in a specific moment. I don’t put a filter on reality but instead thrive to express its essence in the purest form, to seize the surroundings of an instant to take pictures that truly manifest a fragment of life.

A.K.A Milena Berndt, exploring the world since '09