Even if a place is currently ruined and forgotten, I would like to grasp the potential and hope hidden within it.

I capture upscale, luxury homes in my daily work as a real estate photographer. But one day, on my way to a shoot, I stumbled upon an abandoned shopping row in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. It looked completely ruined, as if time had simply left it behind. Yet, in that moment, I caught a certain hidden beauty there. I felt that even though it is currently forgotten, there is still a sense of potential waiting underneath. I then realized that there are so many commercial properties like this—stagnant for now, but still holding onto a future potential.

At the time, I was going through my own financial struggles, so I projected myself onto these forgotten buildings. I dreamed of a revival, both for these spaces and for myself.

I've named this series Liminality—a term in anthropology that refers to a suspended, uncertain state where an individual or a group has lost their previous position but has not yet transitioned into a new one.

We can no longer cling to the prosperity of the past, yet we can’t see the hope for the future clearly. Even so, through catching a glimpse of a beauty hidden in these abandoned buildings, I would like to show a feeling of potential and even hope for their revival.