Shot between 2013 and 2025, across dozens of countries, from Mexico City to Tokyo, via Bogotá, Delhi, Istanbul, Nairobi and many more, the series gathers ordinary scenes and unassuming faces: people working, strolling, waiting, cooking, resting, or engaged in casual conversations.

Each chapter portrays a moment captured in different settings, without any apparent relation and yet brought together by an underlying sense of sameness. There is no particular order to dive into the series. Many a Human is a collection of scattered, ordinary moments, and the audience should approach with the same openness they’d have on a casual stroll.

The project is grounded in a personal reflection, captured by Goethe’s words: “If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, ‘The same as everywhere.” Far from flattening the human experience, this opens a space to observe how sameness and difference coexist: how the ordinary reveals both universality and individuality.

The perspective is shaped by a wide array of influences, from the literary to the visual: the way Orwell, Naipaul, Kapuściński, Chatwin, and Goytisolo wrote about people and places, and the way street photographers around the world have captured the quiet choreography of the everyday.

It invites viewers to recognise themselves in others, and to pause, briefly, within the quiet symmetry of human life, attentive to the patterns that recur and the subtle distinctions that give each frame its quiet depth.