About

Oceanmimesis is my project in which I want to collect and tell stories about the ocean, its creatures, and the people who love and protect it.

I have always been fascinated by the power of visual storytelling and have always loved looking at the world through a lens, especially the world of oceans and marine life. Now it’s my ambition to go from being a story recipient to a storyteller.

Here’s the thing: I am not a professional photographer or writer, nor am I a biologist or conservationist, I just want to show the things I am passionate about to others. Right now, I’m not even close to the point where I have the resources to go out and tell stories to the extent that I want to, but for the first time in my life, there is a small window of opportunity to get at least started. Let’s see where it will take me.

Oceanmimesis is named after the ancient Greek word mimesis, which can be understood as an active aesthetic appropriation of the world and reality, as a free imitation of the natural. It’s not about adding anything essentially new to the world, the creativity originates alone from the imitation of what already exists. Well, I can tell you, I felt pretty damn smart when I came up with that name. What I’m trying to say is that everything is already out there, I just have to go and tell about it.