By: Azad Karimi
At my level as a photographer, I can publish images revealing beauty, nature, peace, to influence the world to rediscover the sacredness of our land.
Interview
French Photographer Partick Rogma
By Azad Karimi
I became addicted to the whole visual environment... By this beautiful sentence Patrick, this amazing photographer describes himself. Getting to know him is a blessing. He is familiar with the psychological methods of Carl Gustav Jung.He knows painting and the logic of colors. He is familiar with cinema and Jacques Tati the French comedian.
He is a professional photographer.
One might ask, what do Jung and cinema and photography have to do with each other?
In short, in artistic phenomenology, recognizing the unknown existential dimensions of phenomena (materially and spiritually) is in the conscious context of man. This can be used in some way for aesthetic analysis.
Many of us are familiar with Jung and his psychoanalytic methods. Therefore, discovering the inner angles of man as a phenomenon that has conscious and unconscious dimensions is the pretext for recognizing existential truth. Because it is the man who is the realist, and these concepts fall into the realm of anthropology. What we see of the environment is an objective experience, but what we create as art is the material aspect of our perception of our objective experience.
All of this has to do with hermeneutics and phenomenology and aesthetics. Therefore, I ask my friends who are interested in these categories to start extensive studies in these fields in order to increase their knowledge and take a deeper look at art.
I want you to read the text of the interview and enjoy it.
I wish good luck and happiness to my dear friend Patrick.
Thank you !
Vestland-Norway
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1- Please introduce yourself (name, training, job, marital status and ...)
Rogma is my photographer and social media pseudonym. I was born in Paris, at the Opera. The Marais district was my culture and my place of life for more than 40 years. Freud was the theme of my studies for over 20 years.
2-What is your artistic specialty?
.Is photography an art? Perhaps for those who go beyond the technique, the know-how of this new technology in relation to digital. The art photo is only the reflection of an artist person, therefore of a being who expresses himself through the photo, who says a message, which would convey an idea, which shows us something emotional unlike the voyeur photographer. My specialty is the color of life. I like to retouch, paint, my landscape photos.
3- When and how did you get interested in this field of art?
.I am introduced to photography by a professional film photographer. A lighting pro who worked a lot with Jacques Tati the director.
4- Who was your motivator?
.I discover the image, see it, look at it, grab an intimacy of time. He was revealing, like one who would listen to a sound that was a musician in the soul, like one who plays with words and becomes a writer.
5- What was the reaction of your parents?
.No comment.
6- When did you start as a professional artist, photographer?
.Late in my life. It was a turning point after my fashion company stopped in Paris. I wasn't sure how to orient myself after this event. I have always had my own businesses. So out of a passion, one morning I decide to make it a full time activity. It was above all my passion that dictated this approach. I became addicted to the whole visual environment like a drug addict.
7- Are you grateful and happy for your activities as a photographer?
.Yes and no. Yes to fully experience this approach of photography. I am happy to hike for hours in the mountains and take a photo. No, because I haven't become a committed photographer. When I had a photo studio I would shoot themed photos like religion, politics, crazy and quirky beauty. My photo studio was the soul of my imagination. I had pub and funny creations. I miss the photo studio.
8- How do you see the point of view, the future of art, photography, culture? Are you an artist ; you should have an opinion ...
. Art is the medium of a civilization. He is the one who gives meaning to society. A country without a cultural approach is doomed to a slow, devastating death where only the law of the strongest reigns. Art has this talent of highlighting the evils, the ignominy of our human species such as dictatorship, pollution, etc ..., of being a conscious revealer. Art conveys messages on a psychological level. It touches us, opens us to feel, it puts words on our emotions. The financial lobbies are trying to industrialize it, for profit. But art cannot be bought, it is the creative essence of a human being. So out of any system. In this sense, art and artists will exist forever, more or less constrained by ideological dictatorships.
9- How does culture use photography? What do they have to do with each other?
.Culture is only a reflection of a way of life, therefore different from art. As much as art is unconscious, culture can be manipulative.
10- Can you be part of the artistic-cultural movement for the motivation of the youth or the new generation in your country and so on?
.I do not know.
11- How can you help our world to become a better place to live?
.At my level as a photographer, I can publish images revealing beauty, nature, peace, to influence the world to rediscover the sacredness of our land. Man has desecrated nature, to sanctify technology, science, profit, etc. This shift is taking place in certain photographers engaged in themes such as pollution, waste, misery, etc.
