About
I have spent the greater part of my life in the theatre, in art.
I look at the everyday cycle of life with my eyes, yet in parallel a filter switches on in my mind through which I see life in different colours — twilight instead of light, costume instead of clothes; in a beautiful person I see inside them anger or fear. But in everything there is a certain truth that we hide or perform. And I realise that the most important sense of my artistic perception is the human being. The human being and their story. Always was, always will be. An artist, a builder, a sportswoman, a person with a disability, a businessman, a homeless man, a prostitute, a priest, a child or an old woman — each tells a story that I want to hear and immortalise in a moment that may never repeat, yet can remain forever.
My portfolio is built on photographing exceptional artists in performance or outside it – in their most exposed artistic depiction or their most passive civil being. Yet it is always testimony to the human being in all their forms. It is their struggle, fears, restlessness or certainty.
But with an ordinary person who does not make a living from art, photographing is a mirror-like perception. She is Lady Macbeth, yet wants to act as a marriage counsellor. He is Judas, yet plays a lawyer. Another is a maintenance man, yet gives himself like Galileo. I look at every person with my eyes, but I see them as my inner voice whispers to me. Seeking truth is not always heaven. Often in art the aim is the moment that captures a kind lie. And sometimes a harsh truth.
Biography
- In 2000 — graduated in classical dance at the Conservatory in Kosice, Slovakia
- 2000 – 2022 — State Theatre Košice (today National Theatre Košice), soloist of ballet
- During his professional career as a dancer and later as an assistant choreographer and director he closely cooperated with many renowned domestic and foreign artists (Ondrej Šoth, Táňa Pauhofová, Giorgio Madia, Vladimir Malakhov, etc.), as well as with several leading Slovak and European theatres (Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava; Nová Scéna Theatre, Bratislava; State Opera, Banská Bystrica; Krakow Opera, Krakow, etc.), while on the stage in Košice alone he created more than one hundred roles.
- Since 2004, alongside dancing, he has also engaged professionally in photographing ballet, opera and drama productions in Slovak theatres.
- Since 2024 he has lived and worked in Japan. Happy and grateful for every opportunity to capture a fragment of the art of personalities such as Jo Kanamori, Sawako Seki, Vladimir Malakhov, Shoko Nakamura, Seiji Tanaka, Satoko Hikasa, Erina Yamai, Shunsuke Mizui, Yukino Takaura, Mariko Oriyama, Kenta Kembara, Dai Matsuoka, Mariko Kakizaki, Chiaki Horita, Dimo Kirilov, Chiharu Kiyotaki, Satoshi Nakagawa and many, many others.
Collaborations in Japan
- Noism Company Niigata
- Selene, or the Song of Twilight / Jo Kanamori
- Amomentof / Jo Kanamori
- As Time Goes By / Jo Kanamori
- Suspended Garden / Jo Kanamori
- Ningenshikaku / Ryohei Kondō
- Yamato City Ballet
- Sōtatsu / Harumi Takeuchi
- Body of Work (work in progress) / Dapheny Chen
- Can’t-Sleeper / Mariko Kakizaki, Chiaki Horita
- Asami Maki Ballet
- DANCE ALOUD 2025 – Sentimental / Mariko Oriyama (rehearsal photos)
- Chiasmus, Golconda / Hikasa Riko, Sakata Naoya
- Saitama Arts Theater
Awards
- III International Contest of Theatrical Photography "5th Wall"
- 2021Tokyo International Foto Awards — Bronze winner
- 2021Tokyo International Foto Awards — Honorable Mention
- 2021Slovak Press Photo — nomination
- 2022Annual Photography Awards — Honorable Mention
- 2024Biennial of Theatre Photography — 2nd place
- 2004Philip Morris Prize for the Most Prominent Talent
- Slovak Literary Fund Award
