In search of good trouble

This work is about belonging without taking root. Since 2024, the inability to get a visa has kept me in 90-day cycles across the world, forced by a fight I had at 19 to live nowhere for long. Portugal is what I call my home base; everywhere else is a deadline. The constraint, which started as an obstacle, became a method. Every three months, I land in a new country with a backpack, a duffle, and a camera, and I look. What I photograph is what I notice when I have no claim to a place. The off-stage moments between strangers. The ordinary. The people who don't usually show up in postcards. I solo-travel without a plan. The trouble I'm after is the good kind: rooms I shouldn't be in, conversations I can't quite follow, the long way home. The photographs are what I bring back.