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Wojtek Flückiger-Sperl repeatedly exhibits his photographs in Munich.
Here he presented them in the arToxin gallery.
© Joe Malina
Wojtek Flückiger-Sperl is currently showing his photographs in the Hörlkofen town hall.
He's not a fan of staged images.
Hörlkofen – Wojtek Flückiger-Sperl describes his photographs as poems and moods that you capture.
The motive doesn't really matter to him.
More than 60 of his works are currently on display in the Hörlkofen town hall.
Every picture says something specific, explains the 74-year-old Wörther in an interview with the local newspaper.
“It’s hard to say that these are landscapes.
For me, these are more poems and moods that you capture,” he explains.
Capturing different moods in pictures is something the Warsaw native has been doing for more than 50 years - sometimes full-time in agencies or in the theater, sometimes part-time.
Basically, creativity runs like a common thread through Flückiger-Sperl's life.
“Completely different from my ancestors.
They were more like mathematicians, chemists and so on,” he reveals.
Flückiger-Sperl, on the other hand, studied art history and worked, among other things, as an art critic, screenwriter, editor and director.
He also learned the profession of cameraman in order to find out how best to position himself for the photo subjects.
One thing was always important to the 74-year-old: “For me, photography is just like writing.
I don't fight for special motifs." That's also what sets Flückiger-Sperl apart from most photographers: "You can't describe me as a normal photographer.
I’m not interested in motifs or subject photography,” he emphasizes.
It is the unconventional, sometimes very simple situations that attract his attention.
The light that shines through the window at night, the offspring of small spiders on a plant or the trees that move in a storm.
“Even the dirtiest season produces beautiful pictures,” he knows, adding: “In the industry, things that are posed and licked are preferred.
That’s not what I like to do.”
Flückiger-Sperl has now lived in Wörth for eight years.
Previously he was at home in Notzing.
Photographs from the Notzinger and Wörther area can currently be found in the Hörlkofen town hall.
The photographer is now limited in his mobility due to illness.
But he lets this influence his passion as little as possible.
For example, he takes many of his pictures through an upstairs window, sometimes even with his smartphone.
“The cameras on cell phones are so good these days that you can often take better pictures with them than with a regular camera,” he says.
His photographs can be viewed during the town hall's opening hours until the end of March.
“The pictures do something to people.
I often observe surprising reactions.
I’m happy if people are interested.”