About
My interest for art goes back
to the teenages. I had a neighbour working
with engravings and my brother with photography in their spare time.
In addition a class mate which was a clever draftsman inspired me to appreciate
images.
There have been periods of different interests, engravings from the botanical
world,
handmade negatives enlarged on photographic paper with connection to the nature.
To work in a darkroom is a very special experiance, you are totaly concentrated
on the image
in the weak red light.
Another period I was focused on indian ink drawings of landscape views. A
photohistoric
interest showed the way to the Daguerreotype, the first commercial way to make a
photographic image.The
technique is painfully slow but
is very rewarding if you succeed.
Small changes in the process gives great differences in the image. It is about
to keep a
dead process alive.
My contemporary Daguerreotypes have been collected in a book.
Nature is a constant
source of inspiration. Experiances from the coast or from the
mountains inspires to new images. The illumination is important. Sometimes I try
to
make my images as simple as possible to maximize the
expression as a picture haiku.
The motif sometime
comes like a snail and disappears like a lightning.
There is an
internal and external
radar always in driving mode.The image can tell a story which
your
heart wants to tell.
2009 we started a gallery, KONST & KAMERA.