Przemek Strzelecki is a avenue and documentary photographer from Poland. An exquisite photographer who likes to be together with his digicam all the time and his unimaginable ardour for artwork has led him to search out extra about Mongolia, scintillating silence, and indefinite areas. His views on avenue pictures are solely completely different, he feels streets give him an enormous enhance of adrenaline. The second he feels to press the shutter is when he feels his legs go mushy, with elevated pulse and pacing heartbeat.
This ingenious complete factor is what makes him loopy about this style. For Przemek, the second and spontaneity are probably the most important traits for {a photograph}. Having mentioned that, he tells us he hates to shoot vacation pictures with the same old components and compositions. He likes to do most of his work in international locations the place innocence nonetheless prevails, the place the individuals hasn’t misplaced their minds and time to cash and the web.
Lastly, he tells us, whichever nation you go, language ought to by no means be your drawback since physique language comes first with a delicate smile. When requested how he seize {a photograph}, he offers us a quite simple and humble reply. “I by no means plan {a photograph} nor do I ask for {a photograph}, if it’s not a portrait, I rigorously go searching, sniff, preserve looking, after which begin listening to the road. Ultimately, I make a silly face simply pretending as if I’m harmless and simply transfer on.”
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Might you introduce your self to our readers?
My title is Przemek. I used to be born in Poland in 1977 and I’ve been dwelling right here ever since. I’m a fan of hats, good pictures, movies, and open areas. I’m in love with Mongolia, horses, forests, and rambling. I like beer, books, and pictures, after all. You possibly can often see me with a digicam in my hand.
How did Pictures occur to you?
It began in my childhood – I can nonetheless keep in mind my first Smiena digicam which I nonetheless preserve in a cabinet together with hen’s nests pictures. Then, occasions of Russian Zenits got here – from the oldest to probably the most fashionable fashions. About twelve years in the past I obtained my dreamed Canon. I’ve tried the whole lot: beginning with macro pictures and landscapes until nature pictures. After that, at some point, I found human as the primary and most necessary theme in pictures and I nonetheless stick on to that.
Might you please clarify your fashion of pictures?
It’s what I name ‘humanistic pictures. For me, it’s a mix of avenue, reporting, and documentary pictures. It typically has a humorous component. Furthermore, I like minimalism.
What makes you pursue this important style of artwork, how do you retain up your spirits for this unimaginable ardour?
Curiosity and a infantile will of figuring out (though I’m nearly forty) are my two essential engines main me in my photographic pursuits. There are three elements in making pictures that I discover most related: firstly, the second of urgent the shutter button – all the time a thrill, secondly, growing pictures – it was and nonetheless is magical for me, and lastly, scanning. I feed my curiosity after which overlook about all these pictures, the movie will get stashed within the archives, I take the following one, put it within the digicam and the whole lot begins over again. There isn’t a finish to it.
How do you see success in Artwork & Pictures?
Each single photograph which I’m happy with – what doesn’t happen to me fairly often – is a serious success. All the sport of pictures is a good expertise and it’s a bit intimate. My solely dream is to subject an album about my ten years of travels to Mongolia. It will be my photographic success.
Has boredom ever struck you, if sure how do you get again to routine?
Somewhat not!
Your Inspiration?
- Josef Koudelka
- Pentti Sammallahti
- Kim Thue
- Anders Petersen
- Tomasz Gudzowaty
- Alex Webb
- Jens Olof Lasthein
and plenty of extra…
The perfect praise & criticism you’ve got obtained to date?
I’ve been in comparison with a Czech artist Josef Koudelka a few occasions, which was an incredible praise for me.
Criticism?
Nicely, as soon as I used to be strolling round Reyjkjavik on Iceland with my pal. Immediately, I noticed an attention-grabbing body, I put a digicam to my eye and within the precise second of urgent the shutter button, he unintentionally got here into my line of sight. I mentioned one thing reasonably disagreeable to him and he replied: ‘Who the fuck do you assume you might be? H.C.Bresson?!’ : )
Your gear?
Contax g2, leica mini 3, Nikon fm 2, eos 30 and 300, holga 135 / plastic digicam / , pentacon six tl, lenses between 17 and 50mm and a number of movies ; )
Your future plans?
Nicely, I don’t actually know, I’m taking a flip in life so I assume I’ve to attend with planning somewhat bit. It doesn’t matter what, I’d actually wish to proceed my voyages to Mongolia. And I’ve no intention of forsaking pictures.
Any ultimate ideas for our readers or aspiring photographers & artists?
Yeah, I believe I may give you somewhat piece of recommendation: be open in direction of individuals, smile, have some braveness – and also you’ll have a great photograph. Thanks to those options I’ve managed to open many doorways and was in a position to take pictures in actually weird locations, i.e. an unlawful gold mine in Mongolia, loggers life in Ukrainian forests, a Mongolian wedding ceremony, or the Gypsies in Serbia. And it’s best to actually transfer so much for it’s actually exhausting to take a great image inside your personal 4 partitions!
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