Photographic vita

I’m bored. Let me get a camera. I need a good one though. The bigger, the better. A professional looking one. Need gear. Need lots of gear. Spent stupid money on stupid gear. Took thousands of pictures in auto mode. Loved my pictures even though I kinda knew they sucked. Loved the way how I looked holding my camera more than the actual photographs I took. Kept shooting. Started learning. Started learning about the technical stuff. Thought that makes me a better photographer. Consumed hours of Youtube videos. Decided that’s not enough. Booked a two day photography course and thought, now I’m mastering it. The results were still poor. Henry Cartier Bresson (he who made street photography popular) once famously said: "your first 10.000 photos suck". Or something along those lines. He is right. Still learning, still trying to get better. 

Now, 3 years after I started this journey, I am still not satisfied. But I still enjoy it. I actually really love it. It never gets old. There’s always something to discover. 

I lived and worked all over Europe, Africa and the Middle East. My  daytime job consists of meetings, workshops and plenty of discussions. This is why I enjoy photography as a way to bring silence and deceleration into my life. Particularly street photography is something I truly enjoy. To aimlessly wander around the city. With no agenda, no timelines. Urban exploration as a contrast to my corporate life.     

I prefer black and white because of it’s timeless and elegant vibe. And yet occasionally I take the odd color shot. I use different styles and different themes for my pictures and I don’t like to follow just one style or one genre. I sometimes take one picture out in the streets and then discover a totally different one when I crop it down on the computer. I am endlessly amazed, by how photographs can give beauty to otherwise mundane or even outright boring scenes and objects.