I got a totally nice Skype message from David Alan Harvey the other day, telling me that one of my images from the workshop with Antonin Kratochvil in Transylvania was up on BURNmagazine. I had totally forgotten about that submission and my first thought was that there was some mistake or mix-up. But there was none and I am very happy to see this image up on BURN.
The Transylvania workshop was an amazing experience for me. Very intense. It gave me a lot to chew. I wanted to force some decisions and for that I needed additional oppinions. The workshop in Transylvania was just one of these lucky things that happen at the right time. Not only did Transylvania sound perfect, Antonin Kratochvil did sound perfect too. Back at that time I was reworking the concept for A Stranger’s Wish and thus very interested in portraiture. I have to admit – hopefully without sounding arrogant – that most portraiture I see around strikes me as utterly boring. Along my researches I stumbled across Antonin’s old portraiture photographs and they left me with a deep longing and curiosity, which made me constantly want to go back to them to try to grasp “it”. It was like I was feeding on them. And this kind of excitement is one of the things I expect from photography/art. On top of that Antonin was said to be ruthless, mean, direct, sincere, not sparing, only caring about photography and not about someone’s feelings – exactly what I was looking for!
I do not mean to say that I am a masochist. But I wanted some slaps of truth in my face. I had not found photography as a toddler neither did I grew up with it in any way. I was a trained architect and working on filmprojects for several years before it struck me. LATE! If I wanted to do something with photography, I needed to see where I was standing and I needed to just suck in whatever information possible to see if this path made sense at all for me …
David Alan Harvey was already helping me enormously by throwing the right questions into the arena, but you need more than one star to be able to define your position when you navigate. And I was looking for another star. A dark star. I found it.
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