ZEROLA
FOTOGRAFKA
„ Všimnúť si jedinečný okamih, zachytiť ho fotoaparátom a potom vidieť očarujúci obraz, mi ukázalo cestu k profesii fotografky.
Nachádzam inšpiráciu v tichu osobnosti aj v sile jedinečnosti.
Vidím obrazy, celé kompozície, príbehy, ktoré túžim nafotiť a urobiť z vízie fotografiu, potom „maľujem“ svetlom, staviam scénu, vymýšľam, tvarujem vizuál. Zhmotňujem príbeh ladím ho v priestore a ladím ho aj v duši.”
Andrea Zerola is a Slovak independent professional photographer
The power of photography pulled her close just like a magnet. She borrowed the first camera from her dad and photography ravished her, every portrait she made was a story that revived within her.
The joy coming from the whole process is her inspiration and a chance to tell stories, visions, and dreams.
At the end of the city in the industrial zone in Prešov, she had a dark room where she could spend days and nights. At the art school, she was interested in architecture and did painting, statue, film, saw a lot about artists. All of this inspired her to connect classical techniques with the digital ones that open new dimensions.
It has always been drawing her to Prague, she lived in Prague for some time, looked into the world of fashion, photography, into the inspirational mood of the hundred-towered artistic city. She was selling her photographs in galleries and did her first solo exhibition in the cult space of the Palace Lucerna. Prague was fated for her, she met her husband there, and later, they moved to Bojnice where she opened her studio in 2000.
‘To notice a unique moment, to capture it by a camera and then see the glamorous image has shown me a way to the profession of a photographer. I am finding inspiration in art, people, their lives, in soft emotions, in the silence of personalities, and in the power of uniqueness. I am seeing images, whole compositions, stories that I desire to take a photo of and make a picture out of the vision. Then, I am ‘painting’ with the light, building a scene, coming up with something new, creating, shaping the visual. By taking photos, I am reifying a story, tuning it in space and tuning it also in the soul.’