Kamilla Czastka Painting

The process and the importance of photography for me and my work

11 years, 320 days ago

Above all I am a painter. Nevertheless, I can not exclude the Photography for me, is it to me as essential as the drawing. I see both as complementary media.On the one hand allowed the photograph to sketch fleeting moments fastest, the other is a photographic subject for me a caressing of what happened to me again and again, how the steady way, which I experience a while with feet and eyes. There are also the gestures of the people that represent a habit again and occupy me.

All of my photographs that I am presenting to my site here are analogous created images.
Developed by my self.
I plan to continue to choose the digital camera only as a means of documentation.
The black and white art photographs I want to continue to capture analogque.

I want to elaborate the development of images on photo paper in a classic photo lab. This is very important to me.

I do not want to defy the modern age, but the process of developing an image from the negative to the positive on paper for me is like a ceremony.

The analogous way to a photo-image allows me the pictures from the actual photo sharpness to take out and to make them softer. Some images are reminiscent of a coal-ink drawing. They have scratches, stains, fingerprints. They smell.
All that I can not achieve digitally.

Then follows the reading and my decision, I would represent what images. And again just like in the paintings and drawings only the detection of the encounter. One image reaches the one, the other touched the other - in an individual way. Perhaps a picture meets one person who feels the same temperature of the emotion with which I created the image ..

K.C.