"Clichè?" is a photographic series built around a recurring visual gesture: the horizon line often falls near the upper third of the frame. Not as a fixed rule, but as a habit — one that emerged naturally while photographing over time and across places.
The images vary widely in subject and setting: open stretches of beach, quiet peripheries, playgrounds, roads, lone figures, or empty spaces with a certain stillness. Sometimes the view is nearly frontal, other times it leans slightly toward a subject — never staged, just observed. There’s no single theme, just a way of looking that repeats itself, even when the context changes.
The question in the title is sincere. It’s about wondering — not declaring — whether something familiar can still hold attention. Whether compositional instinct can create its own kind of coherence. And whether a so-called cliché might still offer a place to begin.
Cameras used: Ricoh GR II, Fujifilm X10.
