Could you tell us a few words about yourself and your work?
Before a camera became my main tool, I spent nearly twenty years selling dreams - literally. As a marketing director in the travel industry, I learned how to make people feel a place before they ever got there. Then came my own jewellery brand and my first professional product shoots. Somewhere along the way I realised that a photograph is not documentation. It is a promise.Today I work with brands and people who care about more than just a nice image. I shoot campaigns, interiors, events, portrait sessions. I live by the sea, I travel a lot - and I believe that everything I experience finds its way into my photographs. Maybe that is why I sometimes hear that my work is recognisable without a signature. That is the best compliment I could get.
For the new O~Z Watch Me Grow collection, we love the imaginative fruit and vegetable faces you created! Could you share the inspiration behind this concept?
The starting point was a Polish children's poem called The Turnip by Julian Tuwim - a story about growing, patience and the kind of strength that only shows up when everyone is together. The collection is called "Watch Me Grow", and that word "grow" tied everything together. Children grow. Vegetables grow in the garden. So do curiosity, character and confidence.In the poem, everyone is someone - grandpa, grandma, grandson, dog, cat, hen. Everyone has a role. I wanted to bring that idea to the vegetables: in this shoot, they became characters, because in a garden, just like in the poem, everyone is someone. Broccoli can be a head of hair, a courgette a smile, and cherry tomatoes make the sweetest little grin of all. Each face is different - with its own personality, its own mood. I wanted it to feel like childhood in the best possible way. Not cute or pretty, but genuinely funny, a little wonky, the kind of thing that makes you laugh. Because a child who arranges vegetables on a table and says "this is Mr Potato" gets it straight away.
You’ve photographed many O~Z collections over the past few years. What’s your advice for staying inspired as a photographer?
I have been photographing for Organic Zoo since 2018 - and honestly, every shoot is different. That is probably the best answer I have when it comes to staying inspired: I do not look for it in one place. I draw from travel, from nature, from my own childhood, from books and stories. A poem written decades ago became the foundation for an entire collection - I think that says it all.Working with children teaches you humility. You can arrive with a perfectly thought-out concept, a moodboard, a solid plan - and within five minutes everything goes in a completely different direction. Because a two-year-old has decided they are not getting up from the floor today. Or that one particular prop is the only thing in the world worth paying attention to. I have learned that this is not a problem - it is the material. You just have to let go and follow.Instead of asking children to pose, I talk to them, play with them, go along with their ideas. Every child has a different temperament, different interests, a different pace. Once you understand that, the session stops being a battle and starts being something you do together.Props help a lot. I look for them at flea markets, borrow things from friends. An old scale, a big basket, a fishing rod - these things work like magnets on a child's imagination. There is a contrast I love: a small person and a very big world around them. Safe, always - but full of curiosity.And I think that is really the point: inspiration does not just show up. You have to create the conditions for something unexpected to happen - and then be ready to catch it.
