Ordinary days

It took Martin Kollar quite a while to understand that nothing he wanted to photograph required a search for the extraordinary. He realized that he who can see  can find it anywhere. In housing estates where his friends live, in small towns where he stops to have a warm lunch while on a trip, in villages, in the countryside that flanks the road to his destination. Kollars topics are simply everywhere that people live their everyday, ordinary lives. These topics emerge both incidentally and inevitably from the most diverse environments and the most banal situations that capture his attention, appeal to him, excite him or move him. Martin Kollar has discovered the capricious magic of everyday life. His photographs document our times and his search for them represents a kind of contemporary archaeology. It is his own kind of archaeology: very non systematic, very private, and absolutely personal because the photographer and his camera enter reality very discreetly and inconspicuously.