Undoubtedly, the more I do street photography and publish my photos on the www.adammazek.com website, the more I see and feel that I want to say something with my photographs. But what?
I have no idea what I want to say with my photographs. Also, I cannot explain why I am writing this text. I think I am doing all these things because I believe in a process. I believe that somehow I will inspire other people. Luckily, I already managed to inspire some people in the past. For today (I wrote this text on the 31st of May, 2026), I hope to inspire millions of other people, not necessarily my contemporaries. I hope my blog will live many years after my death and that somehow my pictures and words that I would leave behind would resonate in the minds of future generations. Still, what do I want to communicate with my pictures?
I may never provide a satisfactory answer to this question.
Perhaps it is simply impossible to provide a simple and straightforward explanation. In the same way, one could ask what the art’s purpose is: why do people create new things out of nothingness? I believe that art’s aim is to evoke a specific kind of feeling. Undoubtedly, I could tell the same about my pictures. Still, I feel that it is only a partial answer. It is not satisfactory for me. I want more explanations, but I cannot find them.
Perhaps my mind is too narrow to comprehend it. It is one of the options. I am not a genius writer who writes spirited texts each time I write. I would say I am a real nowhere man, living in my no man’s land. No matter what, I want to communicate with my photos; I want to stress that I will be doing street photography as long as my health lets me do it.
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