I’m 43, and I’m still learning to see. I started out at twenty as an ornamental plasterer, then taught myself to code — today I work as a software architect, designing the cloud. I was born near Piotrków Trybunalski, spent most of my life tied to Warsaw, and for the last ten years I’ve lived in Masuria, in Ruciane-Nida, where I’m building a house. The quiet of the forest and the lakes is closer to me than the noise of the city’s concrete monuments.

I picked up a camera in my forties — part midlife crisis, part curiosity. I was afraid it would be another three-week fascination. It has stayed for years — perhaps because, when my son and then I were diagnosed with ADHD, treatment finally let me focus and see the world differently.

This isn’t reportage. I’m not interested in how something looks through the lens, only in how I see it — I push the colour, warm it, shift the mood. Rather than use AI to generate fantasy, I’d rather build on what I can actually experience, and show how I took it in.

I photographed everything — nature, the sky, objects, situations — until I realised it’s people who pull me in. Especially in emotion, caught in a single instant, not in a pose. A moment like that says more about a person than any conversation, and it’s often more honest. That’s what I look for: emotion, and the truth about a person. Even my surreal works grow from frames caught by chance.

Somewhere along the way, as I was changing my life, I found the gym and powerlifting — with a few small wins at competitions. That’s part of me too, and probably why it sometimes returns in my frames.

I have no formal art education, and I’m sure there are gaps — but I don’t compare myself to anyone. The camera is my tool today, not my limit; painting is already pulling at me. It comes down to one thing: to speak in my own voice.

One of these works — a moment of tension where strength meets stillness — reached the finals of the Dodho Fine Art Awards 2025 and the “Fine Art 2025” book. A nice surprise, not the goal itself.

I began exhibiting mostly to finally show what I make — art isn’t how I earn a living. And prints, because a screen will never give what the naked eye does: a physical print, with no digital middleman. They say I transform reality — I don’t agree. I simply show how I took in that one moment.