| About me |
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I’m a geographer and hydrologist, but the arts are my passion as well, so one day I decided to concentrate my energy on photography and writing, quit my good but slavish job,and started a new career. I taught myself rudiments of photography years before this decision, so I had no problems with its technical and aesthetical aspects, but I used my camera primarily as a device for capturing reality, not as a creative tool for visualization of metaphysical questions. In my contemporary works intellectual photography dominates, but life, humans, body, landscape, are still the most important subject, content and essence of my pictures, equally important as their composition and technique. It’s an old-fashioned way of thinking about art, but it serves as a kind of catharsis after diletantish ”philosophy” of some artists and critics. Maybe I’m a backward, but I still would like to have Donatello’s David, not Manzoni’s Artist’s shit, in my living room, even if it’s the most beautiful shit in the world (does anybody know who is Manzoni?). Though I’m a fine-art and commercial photographer, I don’t have a typical studio or other trappings associated with being a professional. I work mainly in my basement, use window or artificial continuous light, even most of my commercial work was made with available lighting. I use different cameras, from pinhole to digital, but black and white film and medium format camera are my favourite tools. Once or twice a year I have a solo exhibition, where I present new works. I respect commercial work, but my fundamental concern is fine-art photography. My works are in private collections in the USA, Israel, Austria, Spain, Germany and Poland. I also write poems, short stories, critical essays about the arts and make video art. |
