This text won’t be about tremendous Frida’s song, “Somethings’ Going On.”
I was inspired to write the current text because I registered in the “Mundane outskirts” post that I do not have to be where “Somethings’ Going On.” The truth is that I prefer places where people walk with their dogs and see usual and mundane views. Throughout the last few years, there have been many events that happened in the capital of Poland. For example, the Polish nation has many anniversaries, like the Polish Independence Day on the 11th of November or the Warsaw Uprising’s anniversary on the 1st of August. Crowds are constantly gathering during these events and many more. Am I in the group? No.
Is that mean that I do not love my homeland? No, I love Poland and do not want to live elsewhere.
The truth is that I merely love doing street photography in mundane places where nothing’s going on. It is my way of taking photos on the streets. I do not want to be a reportage photographer. I love the poetry of the every day, practically dull life. Luxuries, pompous, breathtaking, dangerous events, and places are not for me. I know that many other photographers want to photograph unusual things. I want to photograph Warsaw’s guts. What I want to do is to photograph Warsaw without its mask. That’s why I love big cities’ outskirts. Districts where people are sleeping, we can call bedroom suburbs. Often, there are few events where something’s going on in such places.
The most prominent events in Warsaw occur in the city center (Srodmiescie district).
I do not need adrenaline and crowds to take pictures on the streets. I wrote many times on the www.adammazek.com website that humans on the streets somewhat interrupt me while strolling and taking photos. The truth is that even if most of my photographs lack people, it does not mean my works are not for them.
