While walking and doing street photography dressed in summer clothes (including the www.adammazek.com t-shirt), I see that I mainly cause consternation among passersby.
I wrote this text on the 17th of December, 2023. It was, again, a gloomy day in Warsaw, like most of the other days during December in Poland. Did I hear some special comments regarding my summer outfit while strolling on the abovementioned day? No, I did not, even though it was cold (seven degrees Celsius [44.6 degrees Fahrenheit]). Still, that day, I realized that I almost always cause consternation in other people’s minds. I think I drive it because almost always, I see in other people’s eyes amazement, disbelief, disgust, respect, laugh, or admiration when we pass each other. I think many people ask themselves, “What is it all about?”
What do I do when I see consternation in other humans’ eyes? Nothing.
I continue what I want to do: wandering and taking pictures of the most mundane items I can find during a gloomy day. The truth is other people’s thoughts cannot influence me anyhow. I do not plan to worry about it too much. Even if they are concerned or scared of seeing a man walking in summer clothes in freezing temperatures, I do not care about others’ reactions and thoughts. I plan to do what I do until the end of my life, or my health lets me do it.
I am thirty-eight years old and have been doing street photography for over eight years (I started doing it in October 2015). It is only the beginning of my creative journey. The same issue is with intermittent fasting and exposing my body cold—the first thing I do for three years and the second for two and a half years. I wonder what the long-term benefits of such a lifestyle will be.
