Jesús Pastor is a visual storyteller based in Berlin.

I have always had the feeling that the important things in life last less than they should.

I have always been more interested in people than in places.

I travel often, yet I rarely remember a city because of its monuments. I remember a conversation on a terrace, a goodbye at a train station, a face I met for only a few minutes and never forgot.

Photography became my way of paying attention. I am drawn to unlikely encounters, unanswered questions, and those seemingly insignificant moments that end up changing the course of a life.

Some people collect objects. I collect stories. Some last an afternoon. Others stay with me for a lifetime.

The sea appears again and again in my work and in my life. Perhaps because it reminds me that everything is in motion. People change. Cities change. We change. Yet something remains: curiosity.

My photographs are less about what a place looks like than about what it feels like to be there. They are fragments of journeys, conversations, memories and silences.

I keep walking without knowing exactly what I am looking for. That uncertainty is part of the work. And perhaps part of life.