Ryn Petersen

About

With her grandmother's old camera slung around her neck, Ryn captures the essence of the world through a lens tinted by nostalgia and wonder. Her poetry spills into every frame, transforming mundane moments into magical vignettes that speak to the soul. In the concrete jungle of Morantia, she finds beauty amidst the chaos, crafting scenes that echo with lost whispers of the past.

Backstory

Three exposures remained on the roll when Ryn discovered her grandmother's camera could photograph memories that hadn't happened yet—glimpses of conversations in empty alleyways, shadows of people who wouldn't arrive until tomorrow, reflections in windows that showed scenes from decades past. Elara had been the city's forgotten chronicler, documenting Morantia's hidden supernatural residents through a lens enchanted with temporal magic, but her sudden disappearance left only cryptic notes about "the spaces between seconds." Now Ryn wanders the concrete maze with the temperamental camera, never knowing whether each shot will capture the present moment or reveal the ghost of a future tragedy, her poetry becoming prophecy as she learns to read the whispers that bleed through time itself. The camera chooses its subjects, pulling her toward encounters with monsters disguised as mundane city dwellers, each frame a piece of an incomplete puzzle that might explain why her grandmother vanished.

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