KOI

When I began this project, I struggled with a question. Each koi was, to me, already a piece of art — so I wondered whether it made any sense simply to replicate something that was already so complete and beautifulit in a photograph?

Eventually I settled on a different aim: not to reproduce the fish, but to capture the gravity and grace of its movement. By reducing the shutter speed each koi dissolves into flowing gesture — colour, light, and motion held in a single frame. The result is impressionistic rather than literal, an attempt to render the feeling of the koi in water rather than a catalogue of what already exists.