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. 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. 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. Stillness, light, and the fragile shape of time.