Most pictures from "on the road" galleries are included in photographic album

"on the road"

from an album introduction:

"A photograph is a mere sketch, a way of capturing – albeit in imperfect form – what cannot be described. It represents an inadequate attempt to do something which is extraordinarily difficult: to convey to another person the atmosphere of places and situations just as I recall them in scraps of images I came across somewhere along the way. A photograph is also an attempt to catch and keep particular moments that occur during a journey, no matter if one travels to faraway exotic destinations or to places which are almost at one’s own doorstep.

This album is a collection of photographic remembrances and impressions from journeys made over the last few years. Perhaps among these pictures one can find an answer to the question: what is the force that drives people out of their comfortable homes and forward into the unknown? It is hard to convey such states of consciousness, sometimes so flickering and so extreme, oscillating between joyful excitement and almost unbearable fatigue. We would search in vain for comparable emotions to those we experience when “on the road”. What words could depict the places and situations that are absorbed with all our senses?
How to describe the desert sky, radiant with the light of milliards of stars; or the noises of the tropical forest that seem never to fade away; or warm, turquoise seas, fast-flowing rivers and foaming waterfalls; or the hectic streets of big cities as contrasted with the peaceful and carefree life of people somewhere on the edge of civilization; or the monumental pyramids of antiquity and the skyscrapers of the present day; or the variety of smells, tastes, music, languages or customs of people who understand the world differently, but everywhere share the same emotions. Many of these impressions become obliterated over time, while some can be remembered thanks to photographs which, when browsed through several years later, bring back the events of the past, hidden in the recesses of the memory.

Just as I encountered many varying sights as I moved from one place to another, so is this album a conglomerate of images of places, people and situations. However, the diversity of themes is ordered chronologically, so that the pictures can be regarded as entries in a photographic travel journal."