Profile of a woman with brown hair, wearing a black turtleneck and green earrings, against a plain white background.

I create photographs that live in the overlap between time and being: what’s fleeting, what’s quiet, and what’s noticed just before it disappears.

My work isn’t about spectacle or performance. It’s about presence. A shift in light. A space left undisturbed. The stillness between one movement and the next. These moments are often small or seemingly unspectacular, but that’s exactly why I’m drawn to them. They don’t ask for attention, but they reward it.

Time/Being is both the subject and the method. I don’t take the photo to hold onto something. I take it to notice that it was ever there.

I carry my camera with me when I can. Not always with a set objective, but often with a sense that something worth noticing might appear. I don’t set out to make images every day, but some days offer them anyway. Photography, for me, isn’t a job or a performance. It’s a practice, or even a ritual in how I slow down to pay attention to the world around me. There is beauty in the often-overlooked.

My background in architecture and design has shaped how I understand space, stillness, and composition. But photography moves differently. It’s a practice I return to again and again: to slow down, to witness, and to be present with whatever moment appears.

info@ashleypolet.com

Winnipeg, MB
Canada
A woman in a blue and white floral dress standing barefoot on the sandy beach near the water's edge, facing the ocean with clouds in the sky.
Close-up of a person's hand holding a Sony camera, with a colorful, futuristic display reflected in the lens, illuminated by pink and purple lighting.