E-MOTION

E-motion marks a shift in Ivailo Stanev’s work toward a more fluid and inward way of seeing. Conceived as a merging of emotion and motion, the series explores moments where form loosens and descriptive clarity gives way to sensation. Rendered in monochrome and muted colour, the images move with a softness that places them between photography and drawing.

Rather than describing a scene directly, the photographs follow its sensory residue. Figures, landscapes and passing fragments appear in states of transition — blurred, displaced or gently unsettled by movement. What remains is a tonal atmosphere shaped by motion, allowing each image to arrive at a measured internal balance.

Created across different places and periods, the works are connected by a consistent attention to mood and to the subtle drift between the seen and the felt. Locations recede into impressions; structure yields to atmosphere. Each photograph retains only what carries emotional weight, allowing secondary detail to fall away.

Within the wider archive, E-motion stands apart as a sequence shaped by softness, tonal depth and a sustained exploration of movement. Seen together, the photographs form a quiet constellation — images in which feeling and motion converge.