~ 'In the Sway of an Olive Tree' is a visual exploration of the struggle of the human condition and embodies a spirit of resilience through imagined landscapes.

Within these works, the ethereal traces of analog film, stemming from my photographic explorations, intertwine with digital layers to manifest new visual narratives. The creative journey itself is central to the unfolding of the story; the very act of fragmenting, layering, and reassembling these elements forms the core of ghostly echoes of the past and histories that linger, sometimes visible, sometimes fading, embodying the urge to remember and the compulsion to forget. These narratives are deeply imbued with reflections on ancestral journeys of struggle, migration, and displacement; the profound human desire to belong while navigating invisibility and marginalization; and on the immense, often unspoken, hope my ancestors carried for a better future for their descendants, a hope that finds its lasting resonance within these narratives, seeking to articulate the inarticulable.

This body of work evokes a sense of enduring presence, where elements emerge and recede, speaking profoundly to memory and the resilience of a spirit. The organic, ethereal forms further resonate with the ancient olive tree, a symbol of fortitude, whose branches sway in the elements, yet its roots run deep into the soil.
Installation view ︎︎︎


                                                          And Fallen, falling  ︎


Can you understand being alone so long
you would go out in the middle of the night
and put a bucket into the well
so you could feel something down there
tug at the other end of the rope ?
~ Jack Gilbert

And Fallen, falling

Edition of 1 of 12, +1AP. 13 x 18 cm
Archival Inkjet print on Cotton Rag paper. 2022



Born of impermanence, a truth etched by fleeting moments, this work salvages discarded photographic negatives to reinvent lives that were and could have been. A dialogue echoes of what once was. Layered imagery explores temporal fluidity and spectral presence, resonating with its deep philosophical underpinnings. 
Like T.S. Eliot, the work's reflection on a landscape imprinted in the present, OF SOME PAST, LAPSED.


"I am here Or there, or elsewhere. In my beginning."

Of Some Past, Lapsed


Ed 1 of 12, plus AP 1.  49. x 57. cm
Printed on Hahnemühle Torchon Paper. 2019-20

Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
~ Frank O’Hara

Tread on the Waiting Peel

Edition 1 of 10 plus 1 AP1. 12.7 cm × 17.8 cm
printed on cotton rag paper. 2023

‘With a sensitivity to the stories that linger between the twilight and the shadow, the real and imagined, between what is know and what is sensed, we ventured out to see the world afresh and to discover what would be earth.’ 

You Would Be Earth

Meral Güler & Dan Porter First winners of the Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award. Including  Special Edition of 10 |  2 signed archival prints.
Printed  2016.