Autumn Leaves, Budapest 2022

My photography is rooted in an everlasting curiosity and fascination for mankind. Like an anthropologist I want to decipher and catalog the stories that surround me. At the same time I try to arrange the formal aspects in a visual reassuring manner within the frame of a photograph. With my photography I create structure in the chaos around me to achieve a better understanding. As the earth spins on its axis, producing night and day, it also moves around the sun in an elliptical orbit. The earth's spin axis is tilted. When that axis points towards the sun, it is summer. When it points away, winter can be expected. In between we have spring and autumn, in my opinion the two most appealing seasons; the first bringing life, the second, taking it away. My first steps into photography were in a black & white darkroom. When I started shooting digital I began mixing color and black & white. Because color photography became so much more accessible than in the days of film photography I felt compelled to shoot in color too. At the same time for professional work color became the only way to go. Nevertheless I never felt at home with color photography. During the Covid-19 lockdown I started questioning things and came to the conclusion that I wanted to be free, free of dogma’s and free to focus on the things that matter to me. Color isn't one of them. At that moment I became a black and white photographer.