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How that all started? Well today morning, again in car, I had was thinking about the statements and views I heard in my Sunday talks with gallery representatives. One issue which pops up more than twice was question: What do you like to say with your work?

Looking around to other serious photographers work it looks like there is always very urgent need to express statement to some political, social, ecological or other issues. I do not have it. I do not have that need.

That feeling of mine let me think why it is like that with me? Automatic reaction was, it is probably with age. When I was younger, not that I am very old, I had rather strict position to a lot of issues like that. I always felt it is important and than I can change the world having it and expressing it. Now I feel it is not that important. That doesn’t mean that is not important, it is just me I do not feel that string need to express is. And frankly, I feel much stronger that these things are really not that important from the higher perspective. One of my favorite photographers Jozef Koudelka seems to have similar view. At least how I see based on his work. Look at his images from 1968 from Soviet invasion in Czechoslovakia or Gypsies series and than compare that with his latest images full of light emotions and landscapes from Reconnaissance Wales series.

I feel some other things are more important. The inner world of person, the personal feelings and memories. Today I have again looked at images from Susan Burnstine which work I like very much. In linked documentary she is talking about her need to express her dreams and solve her issues through her images. I feel that very much.

Sunday one of the persons I spoke with told me that artist makes their work for artists. It surprised me. But later it come to me that it may be very well true. The first is the artist self. On other hand I am sure I make images for all the people who find something in them. As I like that they start looking, feeling and thinking based on my photos.

Today I have received email from another Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey with information that I am one of the top two hundred photographers in his Emerging Photographer Fond. I really appreciate what he is doing for all of us and being in top two hundred from over thousand is honor. Again, when looking on top ten published now at his Burn magazine and reading all the reasoning behind each project, all those social, political and other issues on which these work is focus, I feel rather isolated is it only me who doesn’t feel it? Does it has something to do with my later interest in Zen? Is it that I do not live or feel the real world?