Photography for me is a companion, which silently attends my meetings with other people.
It is like reportage, but with a common consent.
I imagine that a portrait is like an imprint of what we shared while being with each other, a unique permanent shadow created by gestures, smiles, movements, fleeting looks, atmosphere of what was said, light permeating the place, where we met.
Everything I desire to retain forever while time is passing away and distances between us widening after we depart.
I wish to keep those images, because they were portraits of real people, reflecting their personalities at that moment in their lives.
I believe that by showing them later to other people, who never met my interlocutor, they would like to meet her or him too. That my portraits would serve as an introduction to an interesting conversation, to a beautiful story, to a memorable event, to a new opening in life for ever widening circle of those who are interested.
So, this is the main purpose why I take photographic portraits of people I encounter in my life.
People I photographed often use those portraits later on for media interviews if they work for theatres or have exhibitions, in their books if they are writers or in concert programs if they are composers or musicians.