Mario Bihari
Music in Images (Hudba v Obraze)
The project `Music in Images` is the second project of a cooperation with my blind friend Mario Bihari. For me it is very important to point out again that we are working as a team - one is depending on the other.
Before we started to work on this project Mario and me were discussing the new theme. Mario liked to photograph musicians. Himself he is a musician who is singing, playing piano and accordion - member of the famous Czech band `Koa` and two other projects he is working on.
Mario perceives music in colors, that means every instrument he is listening to, appears for him in a certain color. flute is blue, trumpet is yellow etc.
Our cooperation is working in this way, that i help him with the technical aspects, and describing the situations where we are etc. - by my point of view.
I develop the material, make contact copies of each frame, and Mario gets all pictures to consult with his friend, family, colleagues, who are describing him the imagines - in the end he is choosing the imagines himself according to his perception when he photographed them.
In this project now, it was more difficult for Mario to photograph, than in our first one, because in `Seeing Unseen` we concentrated more on things - this time more on people. All black and white images in this presentation are from our first project.
Many people criticize our projects, others admire the idea. I just like to point out here, however you think about the sense or not sense of our work - the imagines are alive, and they were made by Mario (with my support).
The second criticism we often get, is the stupid idea of people that Mario and me are abusing his blindness and making photographs to get into the publicity.
To this point Mario said in an interview for the Czech magazine `Reflex’, `what’s about that I am blind? This is my problem. The others just care a shit about this. It would be very sad for me when people who see those images would think that I am just doing this to make myself important through my handicap. In my opinion, people which think like this, see even less then me myself.`
Through our cooperation the last four years we got close friends, exchanging views of a world with light and without light, and we had very much fun working together on these imagines.
Thanks to all people who supported us…
