I create beautiful images by photographing defects or the decay of reality.
The more I do street photography, the more beauty I see in defects, imperfections, and the decay of reality. Common, straightforward beauty is dull. Something that strives to become perfect is boring. I do not seek perfection. Indeed, while strolling on Warsaw’s streets, I’m looking for reality defects. I wrote many times that I avoid spectacular tourist places. I do not say these places are ugly. Contrary. They are, indeed, beautiful. Excellent pictures go into the camera’s frame without the photographer’s effort. For me, it is simply too easy. It is not the case I want to make my life harder. Beautiful pictures of picturesque places are cliche. I leave them for 90% of other photographers. The truth is that I seek defects in surrounding my reality. I want to present Warsaw’s guts on the www.adammazek.com website.
I do not care what other people will tell me, in the same way as I do not care what strangers think of me seeing me walking in summer clothes in freezing temperatures.
The truth is that the only opinion I care about is my own. I used to say that the uglier the place, the better pictures I take. It is still valid today (I wrote this text on the 23rd of January, 2023). In such ugly places, I often seek to photograph the decay, defects, and ugliness. I want to confront them with my inner vision and aesthetically present them. Is my way of doing street photography showing the beauty of blight? Perhaps it is. We can call it that way. Still, there is no ultimate definition of beauty, ugliness, and Adam Mazek.
In the same way, we cannot define you, my Dear Friend, in one statement, no matter who you are and where you live. We all have tremendous sides to our personalities, and we all have defects. No one is a demigod, even if we sometimes consider ourselves demigods.
