January 2025. I turned 30 in a city that has lived in my imagination for as long as I can remember: Salzburg. The birthplace of Mozart, my greatest idol, and now the setting of my very first photoshoot abroad.

Wandering through the cobbled streets, past pastel facades and snow-kissed rooftops, I felt something shift. There was history in the air, and music in the silence. And with Alina, a talented local photographer I had just met, we set out to capture it.

It wasn’t just a birthday shoot. It was a quiet tribute. To music, to memory, and to the person I’ve become. Framed by the very streets where Mozart once walked, these photographs hold the kind of beauty you don’t plan for, it just happens, like a perfect note played at the right moment.