My work begins with the eye—and my distrust of it.
The eye hides; it builds a fragile sense of order so that we can keep moving through the world. But what happens when we stop—when we allow ourselves to look without demanding meaning?
Photography, for me, is not a way to capture what is real, but a way to question what reality even is. Each image becomes a test of perception—a space where memory, emotion, and belief interfere with what we think we see. Through that friction, the act of looking turns into thought. Observation becomes both method and subject.
I am drawn to what remains unnoticed. In those quiet territories, doubt becomes fertile. To doubt is not to deny, but to open; it is an act of humility before the world—a way to remain attentive, porous, alive.
The camera functions less as an instrument of capture and more as a mirror for consciousness—a question mark suspended between the outer and the inner, dissolving the border between them. Vision is always partial; truth is fluid, and that beauty often hides in what resists explanation. Clarity, if it exists at all, does not come from seeing more, but from learning to see differently.
- Daniel Simón.
The eye hides; it builds a fragile sense of order so that we can keep moving through the world. But what happens when we stop—when we allow ourselves to look without demanding meaning?
Photography, for me, is not a way to capture what is real, but a way to question what reality even is. Each image becomes a test of perception—a space where memory, emotion, and belief interfere with what we think we see. Through that friction, the act of looking turns into thought. Observation becomes both method and subject.
I am drawn to what remains unnoticed. In those quiet territories, doubt becomes fertile. To doubt is not to deny, but to open; it is an act of humility before the world—a way to remain attentive, porous, alive.
The camera functions less as an instrument of capture and more as a mirror for consciousness—a question mark suspended between the outer and the inner, dissolving the border between them. Vision is always partial; truth is fluid, and that beauty often hides in what resists explanation. Clarity, if it exists at all, does not come from seeing more, but from learning to see differently.
- Daniel Simón.