I have been managing www.adammazek.com web site for more than two and a half years. During that time, I realized that my blog is an anti-mainstream web site.
The fact is that I do not follow any trends and news about current photographers and artists. Moreover, I do not write about new photography equipment, etc. The aim of my activity is not testing new gears or bodies of cameras. There are a lot of web sites which are providing tonnes of technical information about cameras. Also, there are a lot of new mainstream media that give masses of information regarding upcoming artistic and cultural events.
Nevertheless, I do not follow all these news web sites. I do not write about all these things.
Why? Because I want to focus on my artistic activity merely. My aim is not to follow new artistic trends. I do not care which camera is trendy and which is passé. I have been regularly making pictures with my Nikon D-90. The fact is that I plan to use it until it becomes broken (I hope it will never happen). I do not care whether the just released camera possesses tonnes of functions that I do not apply. Since the very beginning of running this web site, I became an anti-mainstream artist. Speaking shortly: I would like to remain such one until the end of my life.
But why are you so anti-mainstream? There are a lot of modern artists to whom you can devote your time a little bit, and get to know their works of art.
Undoubtedly you could ask me, my Dear Friend.
I wrote it once, and I will write it twice: Undoubtedly there are many modern artists whose works are worth to know. Nevertheless, the best judge of works of art is the time. The time provides the best information, of whose artworks we would like to experience. If we want to read some literature after hundreds of years after they were written, listen to music which was recorded decades ago or admire paintings, which were painted in the past centuries, undoubtedly these are high-valued works of art. If something is from the mainstream, it does not mean that it has to be worth admiring. Thus, I want to remain an anti-mainstream, independent artist. The time will fairly judge all current artists in the future — no matter whether they are mainstream or anti-mainstream, like me.
