Time past and time future,

What might have been and what has been,

Point to one end, which is always present...

TS Elliot “Four Quartets / Burnt Norton”

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I love this verse. There is vitality in it. A bond – like a never ending motion, of which I have been made aware of only recently, by a very perceptive friend, to whom I shall be eternally grateful.

I am an architect and a photographer. Architecture and Photography  have been my passion as far I can remember. In case of the latter it was  suppressed – waiting for the moment like an alter ego to come to surface.

For my  interest in photography I am indebted to my grandfather. As a small boy I spent many evenings in his darkroom, watching him developing and printing – the smell of chemicals still in my nostrils despite the years.

His words, “wait for the blacks to talk to you!” stay in my memory as though it was only yesterday.

These pages are “A point of view in transition’. When I make a picture, (I don’t  just take it) I try to bring out the inside outside to core and surface  the emotion within and let it stand for itself.

The lines from poems by TS Eliot are used here to phrase the photographic content. There is no intention to illustrate the poems, I just find the lines enigmatic and beautiful and I hope that with their help I can express who I am.

Jerzy Lachowicz