"The old seafarer" Fine Art Print

My interest in photography fired up when I was a teenager. There was an old analogue camera Zeiss Ikon in my parents’ home. At first I looked at it as just an object with a very weird and interesting shape. I gradually got carried away and started experimenting. I changed several analogue cameras, but back then my interest remained at the amateur level. With the advent of digital photography and editing, it gradually took over an important part of my life. My art education and ability to draw facilitates my work as a graphic designer and photographer.
Since I was a child, I have been fascinated by fiction, both in literature, cinema and visual arts. Surrealism has always attracted me with its incredible worlds and images, sometimes scary and misunderstood, but always magnetic. From the old master painters, I adore Pieter Bruegel and Hieronymus Bosch. I also like the incredible Dalí, but my biggest influence comes from the Polish surrealist Zdzisław Beksiński. The books of Frank Herbert, Clifford Simak, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita and many others. I find inspiration in movies like Blade Runner, Dune, Star Wars and all the works of David Lynch.
The path I follow to assemble the surreal collages is various and unpredictable. First of all is the creation of a solid base of details, which I subsequently combine into a whole. Sometimes I spend hours looking at hundreds of photos that I have taken at different places. Usually these are strange and interesting to me objects abandoned around roads or small towns. Whenever I travel I scan the landscape looking for something strange. Another source is antique markets, where I find oddly shaped objects.
I never use third party photos or 3D generated objects. I don’t do commissions. I create images only when I feel and have the desire to create. I agree with my acquaintance who described my works as "Surreal worlds of details photographed in the real world”. In a nutshell, this is the process of building surrealistic collages.