About M. Oceano

Oceano is a practice of clarity. I work where poetry and fine-art photography meet, building a calm space for looking and for listening. The work is not about shock. It is about form, light, and the quiet narratives that live between them—how a line on a body becomes sculpture, how a pause in a sentence becomes breath, how feeling takes shape before it has a name.

I’ve photographed since childhood and have run a photography business for more than a decade, but in 2019 I changed direction. With support from my then-wife and a few close friends, I stepped away from a world built on pressure and survival and moved toward a more intentional artistic practice. Photography was always there, but this was the point where it became something deeper: fine-art studies of the body, patient explorations of nature, and the quiet discipline of writing. Much of my life now leans toward balance—time outdoors, a slower rhythm, and a more holistic way of living—and the work reflects that shift. It was the beginning of this project: looking more clearly, and living more slowly.

On the main site you will find a curated, museum-quiet presentation of the human form and of poetry available in both Danish and English, written with the same discipline of tone and form.

Each series narrows the field of attention. SPLASH studies water—motion, reflection, surface tension. Bathroom Stories is women as they are: unposed, unpolished, strong, vulnerable, and free. RAW takes the figure into nature and leans most clearly toward the classical line. Bedtime Stories is about youthful freedom—play, laughter, and a body at ease, with no worries. Aesthetics is the most distilled: line, weight, and posture in their simplest form.

Beyond the nude work there is a parallel thread of fine-art photography without nudity—nature, landscapes, and human presence in the world. Long-term projects like the Wadden Sea explore scale, pattern, and the organic geometry of the coast, often erasing a sense of distance so forms feel both intimate and vast.

The poetry—gathered under Moments—moves alongside the images as short reflections on memory, change, and the origins of feeling. Forthcoming titles include The Strengths of Melancholy, The Sea and the Forest, The Moon Is So Beautiful, Memories From a Life I Did Not Live, and The Easy Part Is to Die.

The visual language is influenced by Greek and Roman sculpture, by Japanese minimalism, by the geometry of nature, and by the long photographic tradition of disciplined light. The textual language seeks the same economy: lines that are spare and exact, open enough for the reader to bring their own life to them.

Oceano is also a publishing effort. Books and prints are prepared with the same curatorial care you see online. The portfolio you find here will grow into signed paperbacks, e-books, and fine-art prints in open and limited editions. When releases open, you will find clear material notes—paper, size, framing options—and transparent dates. Until then, this site remains what it was meant to be from the beginning: a quiet room where you can look, read, and decide for yourself.

For model collaborations and practical information, see Working With Me (Models) in the footer.