Marcelo Racana is a Stockholm-based photographer whose work explores stillness, memory, and the quiet emotional traces of everyday life. With a background in film directing, he is drawn to subtle gestures, chance encounters, and the spaces between things — images that offer not documentation, but recognition.

Photography began for me as a form of listening — not to people, but to the world itself: to spaces, objects, and the quiet arrangements of everyday life. I am drawn to subtle gestures, strange coincidences, and the melancholy beauty of time passing. I don’t always know what I am searching for, but when something appears, I recognize it before I can explain it. The photograph begins in that moment of tension and clarity. Where words fall short, photography begins. What draws me is not documentation, but recognition: the sudden shock of seeing ourselves reflected in a trace, an echo, a quiet presence. To recognize something, we didn’t know we carried — to reveal what has always been there, in plain sight. With a background in film directing, I eventually found myself moving in the opposite direction — toward stillness, toward the immediacy of the single frame, toward what remains when movement stops. My work is an invitation to pause, to look slowly, and to sense the quiet shape of the world. Stillness, light, and the fragile shape of time.