Equanimity
Life has a way of running ahead of us, doesn’t it?
There are days, weeks, sometimes months, where it feels like a blur of motion. A constant hum of cities, of deadlines, of expectations. For a long time, I ran with it. I thought that was the only way.
But then, I discovered something. Or maybe, I remembered it. The little pockets of stillness that exist, even in the most turbulent of times. My camera, which had always been my way of seeing the world, became my way of pausing it. It became less about taking a photo, and more about receiving a moment.
This collection is about those moments.
It’s about the discovery that equanimity isn’t some far-off, mystical state you have to meditate for hours to find. It’s right here. It’s in the man reading his newspaper, completely serene as the train rattles past. It’s in the vast, humbling silence of an Australian sky that quiets everything inside you. It’s in the way the morning light lands on your kitchen table, promising a new day.
These are the moments where we are not reacting, but simply being. Open. Balanced. Clear.
And when the light is just so, and the feeling is pure, the camera allows me to write it all down. Not with ink, but with illumination. These are my letters of light, sent from a quiet place.
So, I invite you to come in. Take a breath. Walk slowly. Perhaps you will see a moment that feels like your own, a quiet place you recognise.
2023 November – Equanimity Exhibition Perth, WA
For years, I’ve been collecting moments—little pockets of stillness found in the most unexpected places. It’s a story about finding balance in our beautifully chaotic world, a story written in letters of light.
I’ve gathered them all into an exhibition called Equanimity.
2024 March – Red Gallery Melbourne – Ladies in Red | Rebel Hearts
Alina’s photography transcends the traditional boundaries of beauty, reaching into the depths of women’s empowerment and the essence of humanity.
Her lens captures more than just images; it immortalises the journey of embracing imperfections with grace. Rejecting conventional standards, Alina celebrates the raw, authentic beauty that lies beneath the surface, urging viewers to embrace empathy and self-acceptance. In a world obsessed with uniformity and curated perfection, Alina’s “The world needs your light” series explodes with defiant vibrancy.
The 2 photographs, part of a 5 pieces collection, are not a celebration of conventional beauty standards, but a battle cry for self-acceptance and the liberation of individuality. Alina rejects the suffocating confines of “perfect” faces and figures, instead wielding her “brush” as a weapon against societal expectations.
Her subjects exhale “raw, authentic beauty,” a beauty born from lived experiences, unfiltered emotions, and the courage to be unapologetically oneself.
2025 Turner & Townsend WA - Djugun-Yawuru Country
“Only when we pause to wonder do we go beyond the limits of our individual lives.”
From a thousand feet, the familiar boundaries of our lives—the timetables, the traffic, the tight focus on the self—begin to fray and fall away. Suspended in the quiet hum of a helicopter we are granted a precious moment to simply pause, see, and wonder.These photographs are artifacts of such a moment.
They show two faces of one ancient body: the turquoise circulatory system of the Indian Ocean and the vast, sleeping giant of Western Australia's northern lands. The wrinkles etched into this landscape are more than mere patterns; they are the planet’s memory, a visible history of deep time itself.From this vantage point, the world no longer appears as a mosaic of separate pieces, but reveals itself as a single, breathing organism. This shift in perspective is a powerful antidote for our daily concerns. It is an invitation to a conversation, urging us to move from our isolated, individual worlds toward the collective reality we all inhabit. Faced with such immense scale, we might feel small, but we are also awakened to the profound potential of our collective impact.
These images ask you to share in that pause, to look down from a great height and reconsider your place within the breathtaking, fragile, and wondrous body of the Earth.What happens when we see the world not as a resource to be used, but as a living system to which we belong? If these are the veins and nerves of our planet, what is our role within this anatomy? And how might our lives change if we carried this sense of awe and interconnectedness with us, long after our feet have returned to the ground?
