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A peek into a photographer's mental creative darkroom

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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 i…

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