Colours, light, shape, a potion of gentleness and innocence, a bit of fear and uncertainty, pain, dreams – the world inside of me expressed through photography. This is how I can describe a part of what I create and what I feel with my works. It is hard for me to call myself a photographer, because it is like photography lives in another more real world, where the material things are expressed better, unlike the spiritual ones. I’ve always been on the frontier between different arts, fond of the music, which moves me forward, inspired of the movies, paintings and photography. Refracting all of these through my soul, I create my kind of integrity. Although there are lots of established rules in photography, I just let myself to be led by my flair and I create my works in the way I feel them.
Despite my continuous wandering from one place in my imagination to another, the permanent wondering and asking ”Why am I doing this?”, “Am I doing it right” , “Did I expressed exactly what I wanted?”, ultimately I understand that the art and the soul are not subject to synthesis. The art should not be imprisoned in the cage of the mind and should simply be let to be as it is, to fly away and to touch somebody’s soul – to empower it, to thrill it and make it happy.
Don’t stop expressing yourself. I think that a man of the art should do exactly that. He should express things in the way he feels them, instead of being fashionable or led by different flows. Sometimes you need to be brave in order to be genuine and be yourself. And as a man of the art you will not always be understood. But what you create is always above these small human woes. It travels in time and space looking for the souls which need exactly that, not something else..
Who am I? I don’t know, but I know that I am a man of the art. And I am proud of I do. Something wonderful called ART. I am proud I feel and I see things differently. I am proud I have the opportunity to re-create all this in my works.
Matt Edmondson