Faces

As a people-photographer, I always have been fascinated by people’s customs, cultural traditions and faith as human experience and by the unbreakable connection between humans and their environment. After the 90s when the Iron Curtain collapsed, traveling became my greatest passion. Travel gave me the chance to explore and learn different cultures while meeting people which were born and lived in different ways than mine.

Faces reflect our humanity; showing strength and weakness, happiness and sorrow, determination and defeat. It is the record of our individual existence. All of them tell a story about dreams, hopes and wishes. Success stories, stories of pain and stories we will never understand because of the cultural differences that are just too large.

All these faces have the distinguishing features typical of their ethnicity. Faces capture the human spirit with all the differences and the similarities coming from such large geographical areas. From the pride on the face of a shoeshine man in a Mexico City slum to the undisguised happiness of a young traffic controller girl in a metro station in Tokyo; from the serenity of a Buddhist monk praying in a temple of Kathmandu to the sheer joy of a school girl in a makeshift school in the Sahara Desert – all these fragments of life show us how alike we are but also so different.

This is a collection of portraits from the four corners of the world captured over the last years.

My work is still in progress – I am still traveling and I am dividing it into different cultures.