First Gesture Selected for “Love” Exhibition in Paris

I’m very pleased to share that my photograph First Gesture has been selected for inclusion in the “Love” exhibition presented by Art-Icon, on view in Paris from May 26–28. It is a context that invites reflection on what we value and why. This photograph is my answer.

First Gesture

This photograph lives in a very small moment.

A sister leans in to kiss her newborn brother, softly and instinctively. It is the first expression of care.

I think often about what we choose to look at, and what we choose to elevate.

This image is not complicated. It is not ironic or critical. It does not ask the viewer to decode anything. It simply offers something true: love in its earliest, most unfiltered form.

To me, that matters.

I want my children to grow up in a world where beauty is not dismissed as naïve, where tenderness is not overlooked, and where joy is not treated as insignificant. A world of light, of possibility, of music and color and warmth. A world where we still stop to notice something as small—and as profound—as this.