We would be unable to live if we did not deem important that which has no importance whatsoever. | Emil Cioran
The meeting of color and monochrome pictures and the sparkling wit of a French philosopher in 12 chapters.
Spiritual experience can only be gained by the person to whom things mean gradually less, in whose eyes the range of interest becomes narrower the more forward progress is made. The essence is not to know, but to be. And there is no achievement more difficult than to be. For in a spiritual sense, to be, means the same in a worldly sense as to be nothing. | Emil Cioran
This peculiar photo album is the cross-section of 17 years of strenuous work and at the same time a spectacular broadcast of the clarification process of a consistent author’s visual perspective. The monochrome and color pictures that stare down on the spreads of the book have different connections to each other; discovering these connecting threads is as much of an intellectual adventure as the reception of the individual photos.
Zoltán took the advice of Emil Cioran very seriously: he attributed importance to the world’s several, seemingly unimportant spectacles from which he compiled his most philosophical and also the most relatable album to zen spirituality.
Zoltán cultivates photography philosophically, and saying this is the greatest compliment, the deepest form of appreciation on my part. | Péter Dobai, author
If you are curious which set of pictures Zoltán selected the album’s material from, click here!