Darkrooms Uncovered - Perfectlight

A peek into a photographer's mental creative darkroom

What does your creative ritual look like? Do you have specific habits or conditions that spark your creativity?

Regarding creativity I don't have habits nor conditions; to me it's like an impulse, an urge whenever hits me. Creativity is like an alien that eats me from inside screaming to get out.

When you're feeling creatively blocked, what's your go-to method for breaking through?

Being an impulse, the blockage doesn't happens often but one thing that I do is pick one of my film cameras, look through the viewfinder, put it down, pick another one and another one until I go through all of them. I'm not worried about blockage at all, I'm in no race, I don't owe anybody, I'm doing it for myself and loving it.

Describe a moment when your creative perspective shifted dramatically. What triggered it?

When I see the film scans - that surprise can go both ways :))

What recurring themes or elements do you find yourself naturally drawn to capture?

Fog, reflexions, isolated trees

What non-photographic influences (books, music, films, etc.) most impact your work?

Music is number one with Pink Floyd as number one, food is number two and then films.4

What photograph of yours feels most personally revealing, and why?

That's tough but the attached image has it all: fog, trees (just look closely), human touch/influence in nature, the darkness of a crow and the layers of my mind - some clear, some not very well defined

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