I was never really sure what I wanted to do but I have always been passionate about anything I liked. I grew up watching Jacques Yves Cousteauâs underwater documentaries and dreaming of being a diver in the future. I did, but I got bored. I loved maths and science and dreamed of being a scientist one day and define the world. I did study engineering and I got really bored. I loved watching TV commercials as a child. I became a TV Commercials producer/production manager but still no excitement found.
I never though or dreamed of photography. It naturally came to my life as if it was always there, waiting for me. I just studied it and started shooting right out of the bloom.
Photography is not my job, photography is not a job. I regard it only as another form of visual art. Photography is the only one thing in my life that gave me something that I never asked for. Something that I never realized that I needed. Something that carried me through happy and sad times.
Something.
Expression!
That was it, that âsomethingâ.
I have expressed my feelings, my inner world through my images. Although, my artwork is not my diary. There were times I had dreamt, ate and drunk photography on its own and other times I had not touched a camera for months.
When I am sad I do not shoot sad images. When I am happy I do not shoot happy images. I create images that depict that single moment of my feelings through my own visualization. Sometimes I imagine and visualize images and then I create them. Other times I feel that images find me. I then get very excited and capture them right away. I do not stick to one style or category although I use a rather abstract way to capture images. Anything is possible to attract me and inspire me. My love for nature and science exist in my images as well as my love for people and the man made environment. After years of creating images I have realized that I capture a lot of blackness in my black & white images and a lot of blue in my colour ones.
People rarely see what I see in my images and I am happy for that. Happy because people see different things and receive different feelings as if they were the ones who created them. That exactly is what I intend to give to viewers. The freedom to visualize my images in their own way and receive different vibes rather than watching an egoistic depicting of my inner world.
Anastasios âTassosâ Pasalis |
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