Ever since I started to work as a photographer I was under a continuous pressure to become a commercial photographer, one who is able to provide services for weddings, for brand promotion, for nice looking portraits. This pressure came from best-meaning family members, who wished me well.
These photographers are remarkable in their ability to design images, which compliment desired branding. I admire their skills, which I would never be able to match.
Their clients would never be my clients, because I do not perform to their expectations.
My way of taking portraits comes from such different premise that I would never satisfy their dreams.
It is not because I am incapable; it is because my internal drive to take photographs comes from a desire to create portraits, which represent personalities as exceptional individuals.
As Sir John Tusa, MD of BBC World Service and the Barbican Arts Centre wrote: Bo Lutoslawski is a ‘photographer with a deep insight into people and character, an extraordinary honesty and a capacity to reveal the identity of his sitters’
I am simply not able to work in any other way. This is my destiny, my true fate.
Here is a portrait of Sir John Tusa.