I am re-inspired to write this post, thanks to David Bowie’s famous song, “Space Oddity.” The fact is that I sometimes feel like a street oddity.
I have already written about this song at the beginning of my journey with this blog. If you want to read about it, click here. For today, the fact is that I do often feel “insane” and odd, especially while walking through the streets of Warsaw with a camera in my hands. When I wander through the Polish capital’s urban districts, where people do not take photographs of anything because “there is nothing here to photograph,” I feel peculiar. When others watch what I do (for example, I take selfies in the mirror put in the housing estate garbage), I try to be like water in general. Speaking shortly: I pretend I do not see those people.
I do my artistic pictures, and nothing more counts at this moment.
But, we all are human. I also possess moments of weakness. Sometimes I start to ask myself: “Have I already got insane? Am I dumb that I make a photograph of this foil bag hanging on the tree?” Nevertheless, I do not care what other strangers think about me. I would probably get insane if I had to worry about all the other people who watched me strangely while doing my artistic job.
But, sometimes I think that they have the right. Sometimes I have thoughts that to err is human and that I should not take pictures in the public space, where people live. Luckily, this kind of idea always disappears in my mind as suddenly as it appeared. The reason for that is because I love what I do. I do not want to steal anything from others. Contrary. I want to give all these people deserved respect. I want to immortalize places where they live and keep all these images for posterity.
