I see my creative activities as a way to pull away from professionalism and the routines and conventions accompanying it.
I wrote this text on the 4th of May, 2025. It was a sunny Sunday in Warsaw. It was a day when I did not have to go to the office and work. While walking, rucking, and doing street photography (I took over 200 pictures and took almost 11k steps with a rucksack that weighed 35 kg [77 lbs]), I had the opportunity to think about many things. One of them was the interconnection between my creative activities and the daily tasks I do in my profession (remember, my Dear Friend, I work in a broadly defined finance area). Undoubtedly, walking, rucking, doing street photography, writing, and managing the www.adammazek.com blog are my ways to escape from the world of finance. In the latter world, everything has to be reconciled, explained, and resolved.
There is no room for understatements.
Contrary to the world of art. Nothing has to be clear, explained, and straightforward in this world. I love switching between these two worlds. For many years (I would say in the second decade of the XXI century; I started doing street photography in October 2015), I thought that my creative passion and my office job disturbed each other and did not match. How wrong I was! Undoubtedly, I will be writing the sentence “How wrong I was” until the end of my life.
The truth is that I always try to adapt and adjust my creative hobby to my professional life. For example, I manage to find time for street photography by prioritizing my tasks and setting clear boundaries between work and personal time. Suppose the days are long enough (like during April and Summer). In that case, I try to do street photography after my office job. Of course, due to many reasons, I am not always able to do it. Still, the truth is that I always do my best to do it.
