Dopamine – Series

This series explores the fragmented rhythm of youth where meaning is often searched for in fleeting moments and small everyday highs.

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Year of production

2026

Project duration

4 years

Overview

The series came to life as a personal project. An archive of visual snapshots drawn from everyday life. It highlights the people around me, my colleagues and peers, capturing their unfiltered moments as they move through routines, habits, and impulses. Through these fragments, the work reflects a shared experience of youth, where meaning is often found in the smallest interactions and passing situations.

Process

The project started as a series of personal snapshots I began taking for myself, with the quiet awareness that life after studies would eventually separate us. I wanted to preserve a look back at this period of our lives, one of the most formative and, in many ways, the most beautiful, especially since we are studying in different cities. It marks the first real experience of living without parental control, where some drift too far into freedom while others remain disciplined and grounded. I chose to document both paths equally, as different expressions of the same stage of youth.

There is also a subtle, almost comedic thought behind it, imagining our parents seeing these moments. They sent us out to study and grow, yet in the process, youth often finds ways to bend, test, and sometimes fully exploit that freedom. No matter which generation it is, we all go through a similar phase of life, and in a way, it might even be the best way to experience it. Let’s be honest, have you ever really heard someone regret what they did in college?

Impulsive and deeply human

At its core, this series is a reflection on youth as something chaotic, impulsive, and deeply human. It captures the tension between freedom and consequence, discipline and excess, and the small moments in between that often go unnoticed but define the experience.

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