Vokabular, 2025

Photography can be understood as a tool for orientation — an attempt to approach what remains partially inaccessible.

Vokabular engages with a landscape in constant transformation. Lanzarote, shaped by volcanic activity and wind, appears not as a neutral setting but as an active counterpart that resists clear definition. The island functions as a field of tension in which observation, encounter, and uncertainty intersect.

Central to the project is the use of language as a structural element. Selected Spanish words are placed alongside the photographs, not as explanatory captions but as associative references. Drawing on the format of a vocabulary book, these terms interrupt linear reading and expand the interpretive space of the images.

Rather than documenting a specific place, Vokabular reflects on the conditions of photographic perception. The project examines how image and language influence, fragment, or redirect the understanding of an unfamiliar environment.

Vokabular was developed within the international Blended Intensive Programme “Mare Nostrum / Mare Tuum” and selected for publication in the accompanying magazine. The project was also published online at

www.maretuum.eu