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‹ Photo Notes · 17 dubna, 2015
Into any work we unknowingly project ourselves, without knowing why. So we photograph ourselves too. That’s why some photos are empty and others full of stories. But which ones?
One of my models once teased me that when she asked me what she should do, I answered „nothing, lie down here and just kick the bucket“. I don’t know whether I really said it like that; if so, it was surely a joke. But I had in mind her utterly corpse-like pose, which suited her incredibly well.
I photograph moods. Nothing else usually runs through my head but the image. The mood of the image. Beauty, the erotic, now and then some craziness or fun. I admit that my photos are mostly not cheerful, but I don’t create them with any feeling of sadness or pain. But how do others see them?
In 2011 the publisher Random House Mondadori chose one of my photos for the cover of the Spanish edition of Torsten Pettersson’s novel Dame Tus Ojos (in English The Eye Catcher). The book is about a serial killer who gouged out the eyes of his victims.
A few days ago the French publisher Editions Payot & Rivages released a book with the romantic title Amor by Dominique Forma, and my photo is on its cover too. The book may have a romantic title, but again it is a thriller.
And as if that weren’t enough, my photos (together with photos by my partner Lída Foblová) will star this year in the new detective series Jan Hřebejk’s. Interestingly, our photos play there the two sides of one photographer, and at least this time mine play the more positive side. Two of our favourite models also appear live in the episode.
I suffer no criminal tendencies, nor do murders or anything similar excite me. But it is interesting to see how my photos affect others… I’ll probably let it go to my head 🙂
Have a nice weekend; I have a short shoot ahead of me today, a workshop tomorrow and then sweet Sunday idleness.