Miroslav Tichy is a Czech photographer who believed that photography was all about making mistakes and embracing the errors made. He built his own camera, pictured above, and believed that:
"Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors!
But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting.
And for that you need as bad a camera as possible!
If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing
worse than anyone else in the whole world."
But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting.
And for that you need as bad a camera as possible!
If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing
worse than anyone else in the whole world."
(http://kottke.org/08/08/photographer-miroslav-tichy)
Together with Polke, Tichy has given me the inspiration to create work that appreciates the errors of human nature and that not everything has to be perfect to be considered great art.
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