Photography started off as a hobby for me, after I was sent to Beijing for a business trip. It was quite an experience, but unfortunately, I hadn’t got a proper tool to capture the moments from the Chinese streets. Arriving home I hardly could demonstrate those breathtaking fragments of memories about the Great Wall and the beauty of Beijing that I had in my mind. So, in 2006, I decided to learn the craftsmanship of photography – this self-education has continued ever since. I spent more and more time with my hobby, and it became a serious part of my life, which I don’t intend to leave or let fade away.
I’m originally from Hungary, now I’m living in Melbourne for a while. As I did in my home country, I’m trying to taste the bits and pieces of the culture. I’m determined to explore the story of people who had a hard time to assimilate into the society, resolved to present architecture as it was never before seen, and am passionate about creating imagery of beauty both in personality and appearance.
A person, inhibited towards strangers like me usually needs a kick to go and do the thing—in my case prime lenses were these kicks. If I wanted to get to know a person I was curious about, I had to go and talk, not just zoom in and click. The 35mm wide-angle lens gives me dynamics, the 50mm provides classic view, the 100mm lens extraordinary intimacy; so the story can be complete.
Architecture always amazed me— the built environment that replaces nature around us has to be pliable and humanized, yet protective and overpowering. Modern and minimalistic buildings represent these kind of properties, and I struggle to recreate the two-dimensional picture of their real-life 3D importance. Photographing buildings is like meditating for me – taking my time, setting up everything and exposing the shot as good as it can be at the moment.
Beauty was always considered to be the delight of superficial people – that it is pointless and empty. I’m trying to find a way to show, that it can be meaningful and expressive – by telling a story, creating a unique atmosphere in which the model is the protagonist and not just an object in the picture. I’m usually not striving to reflect reality in this kind of imagery; in my opinion beauty is a surreal, incomprehensible and subjective concept that can be found in most of the people, we just have to be persistent to discover it.
The more I deal with photography, the closer I get to the analogue techniques. I’m from the first generation who used digital cameras, so it’s kind of natural for me to know how to handle these tools – but analogue photography has a lot more secrets I haven’t found out yet. The processing needs me instead of the computer, and I think if you rule the whole process of image-making, from the exposure until the developing, then you do real photography.
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