Ramble

Ramble is a photography project which started during Erasmus's stay in Poland, in the city Łódź. It started as a response to the situation of a person who finds himself in an unfamiliar place. At that time, the camera represented an ideal form of escape from a specific place and time while I tried to grasp the elusive atmosphere of the given city. During long walks, I looked at the changing light conditions and the rays of the sunlight, which shaped the impression of the surrounding architecture and determined my route. In the process, fragments of reality captured in the film's negative turn into hazy memories. The external form of their storage became a photo book, which represents a physical materialization – a transformation from indefinite images to a specific arrangement and subsequent storage - an archive.

After returning to my native city Trnava, I retained the habit of long walks and a specific way of looking. I continued the project and applied the same approach to the surroundings, which were not foreign to me; on the contrary. Captured images reveal small details and moments that become mundane and invisible in an intimately familiar environment.

In cooperation with designer Ervín Gejdoš, we published the book Ramble Trnava. The selection of photographs offers unconventional views of urban scenery, which do not depict landmarks or typical symbols of the city, but more likely reveal the atmosphere of unobtrusive still lifes in specific lighting conditions. The photo book presents over 80 photos from 35mm films, stimulating the desire to go for aimless walks, get to know anew and take a new look at the familiar.

Ramble Piešťany is currently an ongoing process of research and a specific look at the environment of urban nooks and crannies.