For too many politicians and their web sites a section devoted to personal interests is a “mandatory nuisance”.
My case is different. Photography is my true passion. It has been giving me satisfaction and pleasure for many years – “since always”.
My first camera was a Certo, later came Start, Soviet-made Zorki then Leica followed by a six-by-six Pentacon six TL which I own to this very day. Then came several models of Nikon etc. etc. Finally the digital revolution arrived with a Fuji camera.
I obviously entered the digital age, although I am still not that passionate about it. Ever since I started taking pictures I have always followed professional publications. In the seventies that meant reading mostly magazines from the Warsaw Pact countries: Czechoslovakia (outstanding “Prague School”), Hungary and the Soviet Union. Occasionally one could even get titles from the US. Today they are mostly forgotten examples of classic thought on photography. The waning years of the seventies witnessed my first successes: first publication in a local newspaper, good reviews especially of my pictures of dogs exhibited at various kennel shows.
I made some decent money for my work, spent days travelling through Easter Germany chasing raw materials, filters etc. I also had an episode attending a photography technical middle school. Unfortunately I failed in my bid to gain acceptance into the world-famous Film School in Łódź so I settled as a photography instructor in a small club in Wrocław.
