I wrote many times on the www.adammazek.com blog that I often contemplate existential issues while doing street photography. Is that mean that I have excessive thinking while doing it?
I wouldn’t say so. The truth is that while walking, I often switch off my whole thinking. I hear the streets’ sounds but do not listen to them. I sense my body, but I feel that I am somehow floating outside of my body. Moreover, I am present here and now, but I am constantly everywhere. Do I take drugs? Of course, I don’t! Do I drink alcohol or smoke weed? Nope.
Did you get crazy? Are you insane?
Undoubtedly, you could ask me these questions, my Dear Friend. I hope I did not get crazy. By writing all these things, I want to stress that I try to avoid excessive thinking. I indeed think a lot. I analyze many issues not only concerned with my office job but also the broadly defined Universe. Still, I know that I often merely switch off my mind. I suppose that it could be some kind of meditation. I walk; thus, I know I am present here and now. Still, thoughts and imagined pictures I visualize in my mind are floating around me.
Is this a kind of neurosis? I do not think so.
I do not consider all these things as something disturbing. For me, it is a kind of relaxation. Do I aim to reach this state while walking and photographing Warsaw’s streets? No. I want to merely have fun while doing street photography. It is one of my most significant aims. Whether I contemplate many issues or am cut off from external distractions does not matter to me. Still, I do not try to overthink whatever I do in my life. I intuitively think that is not good for us humans.
