This corner of Zebras and Magpies is a meeting room for creatives and visionaries. We talk and take a look at what hides inside the spaces — and behind the innovative minds that shape them.

Like a magpie, I collect fragments of spaces, souls, and stories — giving them new shape through photography, curation, and conversation.

But to truly understand a space, one must first learn how to be present in it. Every space has individuality — a character you can meet only after spending time within its walls and surviving its silence or its noise. Photography gives me that sense of presence.

Interior design photography is often perceived as rigid and dictatorial. I’ve found it to be the very opposite. In it, I know when I’m allowed to snap and stare. The only feedback I get is the end product — the raw, unedited photo. That’s what drives me: not the criticism, but the absence of it. This way, I know I can always do better. I can always tell more than the space itself dares to reveal behind its walls.

Photography is only the beginning of the process. Curation comes second — a natural response to what I’ve absorbed through the lens. After hours spent in cafés, bars, restaurants, hotel rooms, motels, and apartments — spaces that are open, slow, and unbothered — I start to collect fragments. I gaze through walls, observe objects, colors, and textures. I sit with the atmosphere long enough for it to settle in me.

Then comes the careful selection. Each curated element becomes a continuation of what I’ve seen, touched, and felt.

Understanding an interior doesn’t stop at the visual. It deepens through the stories of those who have lived in it, built it, and shaped it. Their memories — much like the light that shifts through the day — reveal what a photograph alone cannot.