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The primary photography
is awareness that is creating
and that we are in touch with
while taking part in creation
of photographies toward the
eternal truth.
I offered my longtime friend and photographer, René Hrala, to publish a book
about him – because he deserves it. He accepted my offer as a challenge and as
a mission in an open dialogue. What follows is a lively conversation between us,
as friends, as has been customary during our frequent meetings.
Karel Koutský
HOW DID YOU GET HERE?
Who is born and who dies? Nothing is a coincidence, the man is who chooses. I
am now here to share my craft with others and not to be subdued by authorities
blindly. I am wriggling like a fish on the birth table so that nurses are pretty busy
with catching me. I feel I want to help them so I let them catch me in the end. My
sun sign is pieces after all.
WHAT IS PHOTOGRAPHY FOR YOU?
Translated from Greek it means to paint with light (fótos = light, grafé = to paint),
as with outer reflected light. However, the primary photo is awareness. It is like
when you look at yourself in the mirror, when you tune into various body parts, till
you integrate the whole body but with the difference that the image in the mirror
is united with us and we feel (see) with our eyes in the dynamic expansion of
being of all things how they truly are until we experience the whole universe as
the space of awareness. No one thing - no object itself - exists as an objective
reality as itself but always and solely through its awareness that makes it exist
in being. The reality, in fact, far exceeds our mental concepts of subject - object,
it is trans-subjective and at the same time intersubjective - so relative to each
moment in time and the act of awareness. There is no certain absolute arbiter of
experience - no absolute subject or “I”, who perceives objective experiences -
and what really is, is the process itself, the act of perception as feeling and transforming
resonances of within qualities and structures of pure awareness that are
being “interpreted” through a specific body and I in the act of percieving sense
experience. Thus the importance consists in whence we perceive everything – it
is from awareness itself. This is the bottom line of everything, not just photography.
True light is one of the qualities of awareness itself along with others, such
as spaciousness, airness and fiery-ness.
Můj syn, Vladimír Hrala 1959 /
My son, Vladimír Hrala, 1959
WHAT DOES PHOTOGRAPHY CREATION MEAN TO YOU?
Photography is what my life is currently about and life is awareness. Nothing is
separate from the space of awareness. It is a certain way of expressing, as with
every kind of creativity, when I am being inspired by all topics and themes in
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