Falsifying the reality, e.g., in numerous advertisements, annoys me. What is worse, all kind of commercials makes me bored.
We often see falsifying the reality on TV. We hear it on the radio. Unnaturally beautiful people are popping up in our browsers. Also, we see colorful commercial banners on the streets. Nowadays, we all see perfect, full of color, smiley people who encourage us that if we buy the company X, we will be as cool as those shiny, happy people. Unfortunately, I often feel that we, the units, and the society as a whole are helpless in a confrontation with overwhelming ads. I am aware that this kind of information transfer is an inevitable part of the modern, capitalist society. That is why my photographs are black and white (of course, with tonnes of many shades of grey). It is also one reason I like to go to the usual and boring places in my city.
I aim to spot their unique, breathtaking, or strange worlds.
I do not use Photoshop in developing my pictures. It means that my photographs are still photographs and not the graphics or too-edited images. Using Lightroom has one significant advantage (some people would call it a disadvantage): we cannot edit the image in an unlimited way as it is possible to do in Photoshop. Lightroom is a digital darkroom. All the tools which we possess in this program were available to the people who made analog photography. For me, too much Photoshop in the picture is falsifying the reality.
Like I mentioned before, we see this occurrence practically in all advertisements. That is why I do not plan to use Photoshop. I have enough of presenting false reality. I aim to present the actuality surrounding us from my artistic point of view. My goal is to present Warsaw simultaneously in the way it looks, but with my own artistic gaze at it.
