Pixels

 

Digital Pointillism and Fragmented Presence

 

Pixels is a photographic series that explores how hyperconnectivity reshapes our identities and transforms our experience of the present. Much of our lives today are mediated through screens, where we project digital versions of ourselves, caught in a logic of constant visibility that disconnects us from reality. This project begins with a pressing question: what is our place as individuals within a global, technology-driven image?

 

Each portrait in Pixels is the result of a collaboration with the subject, who chooses a color to illuminate their own face using a personal screen. These full, monochromatic lights visually define each person as a pixel—a minimal unit of visual information that, when combined with others, forms a larger collective image. The photographs were taken during the so-called “magic hour,” a fleeting moment when natural light balances perfectly with the dim glow of the screens, creating a delicate and immersive chromatic atmosphere.

 

In Pixels, the individual is both dissolved and affirmed within diversity. The project proposes a contemporary form of portraiture where nature, the body, and technology intersect. At a time when the boundaries between the virtual and the physical are increasingly blurred, these images serve as fragmented mirrors of a connected yet dispersed global community.

 

More than a series of portraits, Pixels is a visual essay on representation, identity, and the tension between presence and projection. A work that invites us to pause—and, pixel by pixel, reflect on the collective construction of our digital era.