DUREIOSDANIEL MAINKA
Basel Messe – skulpturale ovale Dachöffnung in Schwarzweiss

About

My photographic journey began in early 2023, driven by a desire to capture the places I encountered with greater intention. What started with travel and landscape photography gradually developed into a deeper interest in composition, light, and atmosphere.

Over time, my way of seeing began to shift. Beyond the subjects themselves, I became increasingly drawn to the lines, forms, and spatial relationships that shape our surroundings. During my travels through China in 2026, this interest extended further into urban environments — their density, their architecture, and the presence of the individual within them.

My work now moves between natural landscapes and human-made spaces, often drawn to moments of stillness, solitude, and quiet melancholy. Rather than documenting places as they appear, I seek to explore how they feel.

For me, photography is a personal way of perceiving and responding to reality. What we choose to see — and how we choose to frame it — inevitably reveals something of ourselves.