STATEMENT

I was born in 1977 in Warsaw, Poland. I had graduated from the High School of Art in Warsaw. My journey into the world of photography began in the early 90's, but at that time my biggest passion was painting. Painting helped me develop vision that was hard to create. Unfortunately I had to leave the paintbrush and canvas. A few years ago, I opened "the door" to my own world with help of a different key...

My early fascinations of painting and photography was combined into one piece, with use of digital tools. This digital photography and software gave me the opportunity to generate unique realities that are impossible to create with ordinary dark room techniques. Most of my work is the journey to the places which don't exist, places from my dreams, desire and imagination. I'm taking my inspiration from many artists and it doesn't matter if they get across to me by sense of vision or hearing.

I always try to make an extraordinary picture and my goal is to make a viewer stop for a minute, to influence on emotions and take away from reality. Am I making it happen? Appraise yourself.

Michal Karcz

STATEMENT

Foremost in my mind when taking photographs is the connection I have to my subject: the tug on my heart that the image brings; the sense of place the image invokes; the whispers of divinity in the most unexpected things.

Sometimes I take a photograph and the connection is deeper. It's almost as if I'm remembering it as I take it. As if it's been there in my head all along, waiting for me.

These images are the apex of that phenomena, because not only did I remember them but they remembered each other.

These are the memories of my thoughts.

Jaclyn Sollars