1.What sparked your interested in photography, and when did you know you would pursue being an artist?
My father has sparked my big passion to photography when I was child. He used to take pics a lot and very often and loved his SLR camera. Thanks him I have learned how to process analog photography by myself at home and I really loved this miracle process it was a big alchemy
2. What other artists and art forms have influenced you and your work?
Elliott Erwitt, Robert Doisneau, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Willy Ronis and early works of famous Slovakian photographer Karol Kállay who died in 2012.
3. Can you describe your current artistic process, habits, techniques you have formed?
I don´t think I am the artist. So… I have no artistic habits or special techniques.
4. Is storytelling important in your photography?
I think that stories are everywhere around us, behind us and we are built by own stories too. So the answer is yes, I think storytelling is important in my photography and every one my pic carries some story.
5. What are some of your favorite books, poems, authors?
I feel and live photography as a short story …. so I like them in literature too.. Robert Fulghum, Ivan Kraus, Karel Čapek, Ján Werich are my favorites.
6. Can you put into words the way you have evolved over time as a photographer?
What does it mean to be a photographer? If it is mean to take photographies, produce them, correct them and think about them… I have started as child with my father… then came the first loves, trips, discovering of new worlds and I took a lot of black and white photographies which I finalised at home. But new horizons for me were opened in the moment when I got my first digital camera, it was Minolta A1 around year 2003 and I felt in big love
7. Where do you turn for motivation and new sources of inspiration?
The source of inspiration is usually for me discovering of world of new places, cities, people. When you come like the stranger somewhere determined only by own experiences and stories and you start to watch the world around by eyes of newcomer, it is something similar like when children discover world and have still ability to be surprised. But inspirations are everywhere around us, in usual things and activities which has in one concrete moment something special in.
8. Discuss the role of community and gallery showings, etc to your growth as an artist.
As I mentioned I don´t feel to be the artist. I have a luck to be amateur photographer and to have a freedom to take photographs when I want and by way how I want. About communities. Few years ago Deviantart was a community center of photographers and big source of inspiration and communication between photographers including me. Today it was transformed to art limited.
Digital photography is today that what became part of life of almost everybody. Quickly and cheap producing, easy displaying on internet brought new phenomen…Nowaday world of digital photography is more internet as classic gallery showing. It has, as almost everything a lot of positives and negatives… like devaluation of value and the fact that quantity exceeds quality.
It is similar to producing of music. In past was strictly selected what will produced and recorded to LPs (vinyl record) because it was expensive and difficult, today every household can build music studio in the kitchen and DVD producing is very easy, quickly and cheap.
Showing on the internet is like showing in the gallery without curator selection and for free.
Excellence and quality selection of gallery showing is for me still something very important for growth and self-reflection.
9. What do you think is more important for your craft: passion, dedication, or raw talent and can you elaborate on why?
I really don´t know how much of something what is called raw talent I have. To take a good pic means for me to have feeling for composition and to have ability to see world in stillness… to see captured moments. Yes, without passion and dedication is impossible to do anything…. I can´t imagine to be a photographer without.
10. What is a project you are currently working on, and a project you hope to accomplish in your lifetime?
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