I took my first photograph in December 1971. in a hospital in Gdansk. I can't remember well... if it was an intentional picture, or rather an accidental shot. Unfortunately, no print has survived. The one burned into the matrix of the brain has probably become blurred by now. What was in my first pic ?. I hope that a beautiful nurse, who by smacking me on the bum, released the shutter of my eyes for the first time. Later... later was a soviet Smiena.

A photograph is the world show in a not straightforward way, indirectly It n to a far degree a world of imagination and what remains unsaid It is not necessary to show a man's face, for the audience to see it When a pic makes people thnk ц sometimes may be provocative.
A photograph ts respect for man and nature Even though a photograph is not a earner of sound or smell, photos can scream end smell With the rumble oi bombs, the sound of crowded Indian streets, the smell of blood and sweat.
A photograph makes our world more beautiful Even when it displays ugliness and dirt, it highlights the inherent beauty hidden in every nook of the btue planet Beauty often overlooked without stopping Beauty is hidden everywhere and in everything. When is a photograph beautiful, then? When it is true What does that mean? I don't know Precisely.

A photograph is a pause. It is memory. It is history already when being taken.
 

Sławek Gloriopax Czalej