Long long time ago, at a galaxy not far away I had no interest in photography at all and I had at best a very vague understanding of terms like "exposure" or "composition".

Then one day - God knows why and completely blindly - I bought a small photo thingy and with the help of the manual I inserted and shot my first film... And that was the end, or rather the beginning.

The path gradually led from 35mm and medium format cameras, through "small large format" to where I am now - the royal discipline of large format cameras producing images of at least 20x25cm and equipped with ancient lenses of dimensions that raise many eyebrows.

I also tried a digital camera, but we didn't hit it off. All the hard-to-describe genius seculi woven into the images, the enchanting character of times gone by, the surprise of the result and the charm of the whole process - the very quintessence of photography that absorbed me - are gone.

Well - it almost seems that great things have small beginnings.