About

I come from Poprad in Slovakia. Today I live in Svit and I have been doing photography for several decades.

I have always been fascinated by the world of still images and I took the first step when my father gave me my first camera for a considerable sum.

It was a Russian ZENIT and to this day I still own it and it is still fully functional. It might be more of a weapon nowadays with its weight, but if I put black and white film inside, it still gives my grandfather a good time. It was an entry into a world I had never known before. No automation, everything by hand. Exposure, aperture and manual focus settings. I guess that's why there are few things today that can derail me in this regard, although with the advent of SLRs and later mirrorless cameras, I had to learn many techniques from scratch. The principle, however, remains the same.

Life later whisked me away to the UK for many years, where I didn't do much photography. I contributed a shot here and there to the local newspaper, but that was it. Things only started to move when I decided to return home.

I didn't have room for any slow progress. From one day to the next the first big photo shoots came with them and many contacts and things were on their way. When I think back on it, it started like an avalanche.

I have photographed events, portraits and many well-known personalities of Slovak cultural and social life. It was a great experience for which I am extremely grateful. However, when they closed our home I lost a significant part of my income as a photographer and like everyone else I spent more and more time in nature until it took over me.

Peace, tranquillity, quiet, no madness or arguments. Decided not to return to civilization as a photographer of course.

I was rewarded with several awards at the WPE Awards, an international photography competition in the category of LANDSCAPES.

Nowadays I just travel, explore nature, look for different places less known but also more known and try to bring to the world a different point of view. Sometimes you have to bend down to the meadow flowers and sometimes you have to lie down. I sell landscape images and it looks like I've found myself in this genre, although lately I've been thinking about macro photography as well, but we'll see where that eventually takes me.