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Latent Prints (2019–2025) is a photographic exploration of the fleeting interplay between light and shadow as it filters through trees and plants, made visible by holding sheets of white paper behind foliage to capture their ephemeral impressions. Borrowing its title from the forensic term for invisible fingerprints, the project treats paper as a revelatory instrument, an analog sensor that records not objects but the silhouettes, flickers, and voids created by light’s passage through nature. Inspired by the concept of komorebi, the Japanese term for dappled light passing through leaves, shaped by Shinto and Buddhist reverence for impermanence, the work invites a pause to notice the transient and often overlooked. Echoing the tactility of early photographic processes while using digital means, "Latent Prints" becomes a meditation on perception and visibility, shifting attention from the object to the light that shapes it, and from what is seen to the moment in which seeing occurs.
