CARLOS DETRES
Photography concerned with presence, perception, and the traces left by place.
My work explores how environments carry memory and how presence can be suggested rather than shown. I return to specific locations over time, allowing atmosphere, repetition, and uncertainty to shape the image.
Selected Projects
HOW TO MAKE A GHOST (2026)
How to Make a Ghost examines the conditions under which a presence might be felt rather than seen.
Collected Works (2009-2024)
Selections from previous projects.
HAIRNOMICON: COMMUNIQUÉS FROM BEYOND THE CHAIR
(2013)
Hairnomicon draws on early spirit photography and occult horror cinema to stage a darkly humorous encounter with the supernatural.
NOTES
Notes is a space for fragments, observations, and peripheral thoughts that inform the work. These entries do not function as explanations, but as adjacent material—recording questions, influences, and moments of attention that sit alongside the projects.
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