Lavender Portraits is an ongoing photographic series developed over several years and across multiple European cities. At its heart is a relationship between the artist and Anaís, his close friend and long-time muse, a bond that defies conventional definitions of union and companionship.

Rather than a traditional subject–observer dynamic, their friendship endures as a sustained condition of proximity, persisting through cold and distant periods of development. The images, captured gradually through shared travels and moments, use unedited analogue photography to privilege immediacy and presence over control.

In a society where the loss of community has rendered marriage the sole socially sanctioned union, this series challenges that narrow framework. The artist and muse, whose sexual preferences do not align with heteronormative expectations, embody an alternative union, one that capitalism and colonial legacies refuse to recognise or embrace. Yet within this dysfunctionality lies a space where immense and infinite love, mutual recognition, and unyielding solidarity persist despite systemic exclusion.

Through displacement, queerness, and defiance, Lavender Portraits explores intimacy as a structural condition that creates alternative modes of belonging and survival beyond the limits imposed by dominant cultural narratives.