Tomasz Przychodzień – Landscape Photographer

I do not value social media at all. I consider it mandatory rather than meaningful. Instagram or Facebook only serve promoting and developing themselves, disavowing what is most valuable in photography. Basing the system on the mechanism of thoughtless liking the posts of people who “like” what we do, creates a vicious circle, where the quality of art is sadly becoming less and less significant. Paradoxically, social media is at the same time the best way to reach people who do not know my photographs yet. And yet I use the absurdities of the mechanisms of social networking sites intentionally. The number of ‘fans’ and ‘likes’ grows systematically with most of them not even remembering what I do. However, is it of any importance in the context of the quality of the images I create and the very process of their creation? I believe it is not. If you ever find one of my profiles, write me a message, ask a question, call. I like talking about photography, I appreciate personal contact going beyond mindless like-clicking.