When asked why I do what I do, I find that no answer satisfies me.
The more I try to answer the question of why I do street photography and write and manage the www.adammazek.com blog, the more I feel I am getting away from the answer. I believe I will never provide a satisfying answer to anyone. Do I earn money from my artistic passion? I earned some money. After all, I sold ten pictures to Poland, nine to the USA, and four to the United Kingdom. Still, I do not consider myself a professional and do not want to be the one. I have worked in a broadly defined finance field since 2009 and plan to keep it the same.
Thanks to splitting my passion and professional job, I feel like a free man who does whatever I want in the art world.
But why do I do what I do? Undoubtedly, I won’t provide satisfying and comprehensive answers to myself or anyone else. I simply feel the desire to do it. The more I do it, the more I feel it rooted in my whole being. I cannot imagine my life without walking, taking pictures of what I see, and transforming my thoughts into written words. I hope to do all these things as long as my health allows me to do them. The truth is that I want to be on the proper side of the force, not the dark one.
I want to create and build, not destroy and annihilate.
Unfortunately, Putin’s Russian orcs are still devastating Ukraine (I wrote this text on the 5th of August, 2024, so it’s been almost two and a half years after the beginning of the full-scale war started by the Rashists. I won’t let destructive vodka conquer my mind like it did with most Russians’ minds.
