Artist Statement

Moon Study I  

Digital image, Pieter Lategan, 2025  

Pretoria, South Africa

Field Under a Quiet Moon
Digital image, Pieter Lategan, 2025
Pretoria, South Africa
 

Lunar Stillness
Digital image, Pieter Lategan, 2025
Pretoria, South Africa

Pieter Lategan Studio

My work explores romantic nostalgia, stillness, and memory.
I’m interested in images that feel remembered rather than documented—quiet moments suspended between presence and absence.

Drawing from fashion imagery, kitsch history, and poetic photographic traditions, my studio practice moves alongside nostalgia without becoming sentimental. Each work functions as a visual pause, inviting slow looking and emotional reflection.

Whether working digitally or conceptually, I aim to create images that live on as atmosphere rather than narrative.