I want my photographs to become a poem, a kind of Black-and-White Magic.
Sometimes I wonder whether my pictures are documentary photography or artistic ones. Probably it is a mix of them. In my photographs, the documentary becomes poetry—I aim to make this phenomenon to grow my creative trademark. To write the post named “Black-and-White Magic,” I was inspired by one of my previous posts and the quotation, which I added there. Which post was that? “The Way of seeing.” Here comes the sentence from this text:
I want to add that the fact that most of us live in mundane surroundings is always a subjective sense. It is only up to us whether we look at our neighborhood as an ordinary place, or, like me, as a truly magical place. But, it is a theme for a subsequent post.
So now, a few months after writing it, I want to stress that I do see that Warsaw is, in general, a mundane city, but, above all, it is a mystic, enchanting city. The fact is that I want to present it via my inner, artistic, photographic voice. Moreover, I want my photographs to release black-and-white magic in other people’s souls. I aim to create a lifelong Photographic Odyssey whose trademark will be my black-and-white magic pictures.
Am I able to do that? Yes, I believe in my artistic, prolific power.
I have already written that this site, and taking pictures on the streets of Warsaw, is one of the biggest goals in my life. I hope that someday, the Taschen publishing house will publish a book about my black-and-white magic. They can treat “Diaries” as a starting point of their work. Will they do it during my lifetime? I do not want it to happen during my life. Popularity will not help me in creating subsequent black-and-white magic photographs.
