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Branding | Design strategy & visual concepts
2023 Photographic community

The two sides of a door - parallel or intersecting, inverted, recreated, mirrored into
one another. A door is both barrier and horizon, welcoming as much as it conceals. It
 is a threshold between realities, unfolding through reflection, through encounter, 
through the act of crossing.
Existing within the half-open, it becomes a vessel for stories, a keeper of memories 
suspended in an intermediate place. Much like photography itself, the door reveals and
 withholds simultaneously - framing fragments, gestures, landscapes, and shared 
experiences collected along different journeys.

Developed for a collective of photographers whose practice unfolds through
 expeditions, residencies, gatherings, and annual publications, the identity explores the
 door not as an objectified form, but as a multiple and shifting dimension. A space of 
transition and exchange, where perspectives intersect and visual narratives are
 continuously recreated.
The concept is further consolidated through the potential of working with two-digit
 numbers, or even-numbered sequences, in palindromic form, where a visual language
 was developed to emphasize this continuous state of mirroring, crossing, and 
reflection.