Artist's statement
My career as a photographer begun in the early nineties with a new-bought Canon SLR-camera. At first I was interested in taking landscape and nature photos, but with the advent of Internet, I soon fell in love with pinhole cameras. This led to more artistic touch of my work. Nowadays I'm using digital techniques, but also do some alternative photography to keep in touch with the long lost wet darkroom. Actually I started shooting pictures at the age of 12 and soon turned a small hallway of our house as a darkroom. My father gave the information to develop film, but other than that I'm self-taught photographer.
I concentrate now to minimalism after seeing works of Orit Raff and Sam Handy. “Less is more”. I like to start a silent conversation between the audience and my photos, as what is this, what's around it, what is the true meaning? As a person, who suffers from the main disease of the artists: bipolar disorder, one day I want to reveal the ugly, sullen world, perhaps the next day I want to show some aesthetically beautiful and fine-honed pictures. But all the work is not just “pressing the button, we do the rest” - mentality. It's several hours of work, wasted paper and ink, worn out printers, that I change as often as one changes a car for example.
The photos seen on these pages are the result of a metaphor: Leg of a chair, which quickly moved to describe chairs as people. Digital manipulation of photos is a forbidden zone to me, of course some contrast, brightness and colour to black-and-white adjustments are made with a computer, but compositing photos from elements, that actually were not present at the time I took the photo, are nonexistent. The chair project lasted the summer of 2008, I took hundreds of photos, which were star-rated in the RAW-processor, and finally limited to these few. After the chairs, I concentrated again to pure minimalism. My photos are all B&W photos, a reminiscent of those B&W prints, made under dim red light, and the smell of those toxic chemicals.
I wait for your rain, Sun
All the prints are also for sale. They are printed with pigment inks on fine-art paper and come in two sizes: A4 (price 40€) and 13x19” (price 60€). If you like to order a print or prints, please send me email by clicking the email button.
