During the lockdown in 2020, I needed an excuse to get out of my apartment in Berlin and started going for a daily walk. When leaving the apartment I set an alarm on my phone for ten minutes, once it went off, I’d stop and make one photo. After returning home, I wrote down the time the photo was taken, made a quick diary entry and pinned the location to a map, creating a ten minute radius around my apartment.
Often I was in a very familiar area that I’ve passed a thousand times before but would never think twice about photographing, and sometimes I was discovering a street I’ve never been down. After day 44 of the lockdown, I ran out of places to go.
At the end of 2023, I was taking part in a month-long artist residency with the Matca Space for Photography in Hanoi, and decided to undertake the same daily walk. I was seeing everything for the first time and using the idea to discover my new, temporary surroundings, whether it was exploring the maze-like alleys of Ngoc Ha village, passing the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum for the hundredth time or taking in the small details and sounds of a place I will most likely never see again.
I’m not used to photographing in this way, forcing myself to stop at an exact point and see what I got. The same was true for both Berlin and Hanoi, some days I liked it, some days I didn't.