Today (I wrote this text on the 12th of October, 2025), I will provide some insights about reality.
Every time I go out to do street photography, I think to myself that I definitely won’t photograph anything today, because I’ve already photographed practically everything I wanted to photograph in my neighborhood. Fortunately, I’m wrong every time. The world amazes me each time I leave my home and see the mundane reality right in front of my eyes. Even if I see the same tree for the umpteenth time, even if I see the same streets and pavements all the time, I am amazed. When I see reality, I want to dive deep into it. I see unlimited possibilities to photograph mundane reality, even if I know it should be boring me to death already. I cannot explain this phenomenon. Perhaps I got crazy. It is one of the possibilities.
Undoubtedly, the fact that I was swimming regularly for seven years (between 2011 and 2018) contributed to the fact that I started doing street photography and cherishing mundane reality.
The repetitive patterns I observed while swimming, the way they mesmerized me, seem to have influenced my perception of the world. I think I wrote about it in one of my previous posts entitled “How did swimming help me discover street photography?” Still, I feel that this experience is not enough for me to answer how it was possible that the mundane reality which I see in Warsaw constantly amazes me. I love life – I genuinely appreciate it. The truth is that I want to live as long as possible in health (that’s why I do intermittent fasting, exposing my body to coldness by taking cold showers, and walking in summer clothes in frigid temperatures, and ruck). For me, walking is the essence of my life. While walking, I cannot imagine taking pictures of things I see. That’s how it looks in my case. This is my reality.
