Resurgence started as an idea I had, then became a long conversation with my best friend Tyron Blanc, a graphic designer and art director. We didn’t want to just take photos, we wanted to build a world, so we wrote a whole universe and a story around the shoot.

It talks about the resurgence between man and machine. I kept coming back to the same idea: how easily we’ve started handing ourselves over, trusting machines to do our work, sometimes even to be our therapist. We pour what we know into models and servers, and that exchange goes both ways. It can help us and empty us at the same time.

It comes from the worlds I love: Ghost in the Shell, Alien, Atomic Heart, and of course Blade Runner. Bodies plugged into something bigger, beauty mixed with wires, the line between flesh and machine left blurry on purpose.

Since the idea was real, the making had to be too. We shot it on film, on Cinestill 800T, built a real set, used real SFX, and put together a great team to make it happen. Then we spent a lot of time on the retouching, on every little detail, and especially on the cables running over skin.

On this project, I handled production, photography, creative direction, retouching, props and set design, film development and scanning, and video editing, next to everyone who brought their own skills to the set.