Opening an email message, I find a photo – a completely helpless self-portrait, sincerely looking directly at the camera. This is my father, and this is the way he takes pictures – simple, but precise and profound, without twists, without giving up anything to himself or to the viewer. When he shoots people or objects, his eyes are full of kindness to others. Less to himself. “Have you seen this cripple?” – he asked me over the phone, explaining that he wanted to take a picture of himself in profile so that the arm and the leg look like stumps, but could not get a fairly accurate position when the camera shutter triggered. My father knows how to take pictures, but he cannot talk about what he made. read more>

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