What makes an artist

I don't consider myself an artist though 'm doing various things. I wrote my first book "Dick Monday's Tokyo Adventures" (published in Budapest 2012) and a few short stories and synopsis for screenplays, not to mention the dozens of songs from my teenage years :-) I'm taking experimental photos, making documentary, experimental, shorts, etc... films. When I'm photographing or filming not photo-journalistic images I love using artistic elements as reflected lights or shooting through colored glasses, liquids, plastics, textiles, creating distorted or foggy, grainy images combining reflections, long exposures, single take sequences and using minimalist camera movements to capture the zen of life and unexpected occasions of grace.

Sometimes people ask me "what camera I use"? Doesn't matter what color of the pencil, typewriter, computer, camera we use. More important that try to express our-self on our own creative way and achieving our dream if we have something to tell or show to others. Takes years developing our skills and to find our own style. To reach the audience is not as easy as most of the people think. Neither opportunity nor the success come easy. There are many online sites offering platforms and provide support for creative people and "artists" to showcase their work. Using social media incl.crowdfunding is a big advantage but of course maintaining personal relationships are not forgettable.

....but for the question "What makes an artist?" I suggest you to ask the internationally acclaimed  film director Won Kar Wai or one of his long time cinematographer Christopher Doyle (Dukefeng).

Below I share with you a few names of my favorite visual artists:

Photographers: Saul Leiter, Alex Webb, Andre Kertesz, Brassai, Robert Capa, Henry Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka, David Alan Harvey,  Ed Kashi, James Nachtway, Bela Doka...

Cinematographers: Mark Lee Ping Bin, Christopher Doyle, Benoit Delhomme, Yuhara Atsuta, Vadim Yusov, Raul Coutard, Roger Deakins, Janusz Kaminski, Elemer Ragalyi, Lajos Koltai, Zsigmond Vilmos, Laszlo Kovacs, Janos Kende, Matyas Erdely, Zoltan David, Zoltan Huszarik, Robby Muller, Fred Kelemen, Vittorio Storaro, Tonino delli Colli, Carlo Di Palma...

Directors: Wong Kar Wai, Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-Liang, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Edward Young, Tran Anh Hung, Abbas Kierostami, Jafar Panahi, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Kaneto Shindo, Andrei Tarkovski, Satyajit Raj, Bela Tarr, Peter Gothar, Zoltan Fabri, Miklos Jancso, Laszlo Nemes, Istvan Szabo, Pedro Costa, Lisandro Alonso, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Lav Diaz, Roy Andersson, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Michelangelo Frammartino, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Sharunas Batas, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda, Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Luis Bunuel, Rithy Panh, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch...

Experimental filmmakers: Chantal Akerman, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jerome Hiler, Nathaniel Dorsky, Peter Hutton, James Benning, Stan Brakhage...

Click here to to see my experimental works on Instagram  

My films on Vimeo  

Fallen Angel

Shadow on the wall

Zen

The fish goes to heaven