Where Monsters Dwell

Where Monsters Dwell is a playful photographic series about the small creatures hiding in the everyday city.

The project began as a private game of looking. While walking through streets, buildings, shops, cars and public spaces, I started to notice strange little beings appearing in ordinary things: windows becoming eyes, bins turning into faces, pipes sitting like shy animals, lights growing messy hair, vents staring back from inside a car, and architectural details quietly behaving like bodies.

None of these creatures are staged or invented. They are accidental encounters with the surfaces, objects and infrastructures of daily urban life. What interests me is the moment when function slips into personality — when a bin is no longer only a bin, a wall is no longer only a wall, and the city suddenly feels inhabited by something small, comic and alive.

The monsters in this series are not frightening. They are awkward, tender, silly and slightly uncanny. They live on rooftops, in corners, behind glass, among crowds, under streetlights and inside overlooked details. Some appear clearly, almost like portraits; others are more ghostly, emerging through reflection, shadow or misrecognition.

Together, these accidental monsters form an urban archipelago. Each one exists like a small island: separate, scattered and quietly alone, yet connected through the same strange act of looking. In this hidden community, architecture, infrastructure and discarded objects become neighbours. The human city is no longer the only city; it is shared with tiny presences that usually remain unnoticed.

By treating these ordinary objects as little inhabitants, Where Monsters Dwell proposes a softer and more absurd way to read the urban world. It turns fragmentation into companionship, and misrecognition into care. The city becomes less like a fixed system of order and control, and more like a place full of strange neighbours, small ghosts and little monsters waiting to be found.