Ola Jezowska-Minarik



My Brussels experience has already covered 6 years and it does not seem to end any time soon. As many people, I came here for work, but in fact found a great place where I am happy to live my life – both personally and professionally. 
 
It is also Brussels where I mostly developed and am still maintaining my passion for photography. An appearance of my son nearly 3 years ago caused a great and enjoyable disturbance to my normal time schedules and availability for any hobbies, but I have gradually learned how to combine the two and I am hopefully back to the world of photography.
 
Over years I learned and realised what I like and appreciate about photos. I can admire any kind of photography, but what I love the most is a typical street photography or something close to it. Urban landscapes with people melted into them or simply places in or outside of the city which serve as a background for human presence.  They sometimes offer realistic scenes, while some other time they fill the pictures with magic.  They show a world of people living their usual and unusual lives. People caught in different situations. People expressing emotions, being sad or happy, feeling lonely on some blue Monday or getting angry with little obstacles that come into their way. It is a world of people that have their passions. It is a world of professionals and amateurs. It is a world of winners and losers. A world of doers and dreamers.
 
I love wandering around with my camera ready for snapshots.  Sometimes I am hungry for really decisive moments, for big feelings, for unrepeatable situations. But some other time it is enough to portray a small trace of pride on the face of a 4-year-old boy that rides his bicycle. Sometimes I want to be close and see every wrinkle of a grandma getting suntan on a park bench, while sometimes I just need a small figure or its shade in the background of the photo. But one is sure – often, where other photographers wait for the scene to clean up from all human presence, I am waiting for somebody to get into my picture. Because I know it will give another dimension to my photos. It will bring life to images. It will change their context or will turn upside down their sense. It will simply start telling a story. A story that could go in hundred directions purely depending on each individual viewer.
 
I shoot both with analog and digital cameras, but have a strong preference for the first one, especially filled with a black & white film.

Ola Jeżowska-Minárik

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