Jano Urda

Once I was forced to.

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Selfportrait

2025

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2:58

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I shoot 24 frames 35mm Ilford HP5+ usually.

I do notes, mostly.

It is boring, mostly.

I like to take notes.

Mostly.

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A lonely ride

Sometimes, when I do feel like something is going on in my head, I usually take a ride - somewhere. I just follow the road till it's dark, so I can no longer shoot. I carry two cameras. One with BW one with colour film. My two best friends. My passengers, one is hanging on the seat, another in between my legs or on my neck. You never know what you can encounter. Maybe I am just lonely. Looking for a passenger or lost soul to spent the rest of my days with, like in the movies. Sounds too good, yes, but who's not looking, will never find. Who's not on the road, will be stuck. I play the best shit in The Shitbox. We dance. We talk. We cry. We support each other. What I need to learn, probably better. Just think with me. It is true for some, definitely for me. Be The Far Rider. As The Still Corners sing in a song. Yes, it is little depressing, maybe. But still, I haven't kissed the trees so it is lovely then. Definitely.

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Don't. I shot the sign. Volodymyr thought, that the rabbit like me can't handle himself, when shit could be tough. Still, I'd rather shoot film. For bad people, there is a friend in my sock. Don't be bad. People tend to be good inside. It took me almost seven years to get it.

2022 in 2023

Volodymyr is not picking up the phone, lately. I tend to go to this place to cry myself to shit. Then, later, to be tough boy again. Until I am nearby.

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Those little nice things

There are so many little nice things to say, even if you don't have to.

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The Reconcile

verb

1.restore friendly relations between."the king and the archbishop were publicly reconciled"

Late night heading borderline truckstops. I recently come across Lucia Fiserova's similar photograph from her car in the morning. She was my History of Photography Teacher. The only person I respected to this day, in the picture-making matter. She once said, that IT is in me. But I also remembered, being weirdly arrogant, sort of a dick, once. Thus, it is hard to find the way back, somehow. Even after long time. I might need a psychologist.

Loneliness / Driving for the light 2023

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Tough weekend. Hard Monday.

I don’t drink, I don’t smoke.

But I an sad today a bit.

So what.

Diary

2023

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They won't let me to Ukraine again.To see a friend. Few friends.Maybe, the next shift on the border, next weekend. 5th time.So I drove in circles. Why not, on a parking lot.They asked me, what the fuck I am doing.I said, driving in the fucking circles on a fucking empty parking lot. Till next time.Driving for the light2023

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I like those out of a car snapshots. Some of them are nice, some, should not be taken. I mean the road was empty, no harm to anyone, but me. Don't shoot at 150 kilometers per hour with big camera. Can be messy shit. The barrier came sooner than expected. As life, as death. I missed the tree I wanted to shoot. Will come back later.

Snapshots

Diary

2023

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0:04, night, after longer time, for some weird reason I feel happy. So I am just driving into the darkness. Almost nobody out there. Heavy snow. The best happiness is, when you have no reason for it.

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Jojo Rabbit

I have a dream to spend

1 hour and 48 minutes watching this and emptying bottle of Jägermeister, for fun u know. Have a double bed, but willing to sleep in a bag on the floor, in case of fear of intense social thoughts. I will buy a bucket for the forceful ejection of the contents of the stomach and upper digestive system through the mouth. No judgements here.

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Yesterday, I have asked a guy, to take his portrait. I might end up...socialized. So I shot his car.

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Japanese friend. By my Japanese Camera. From the same year as me, as him! I had to stop by. To say, Hi!

2023

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The bird sailing *on the left side of the pole

The Truckstop Symphony Driving For The Light 2023

[lydiagres]

Bratislava v zime II. 2021

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I remember looking for Lydia's camera in Japan, back then. But still feel like it's time to get her a different one. Her 1979 one.... *if I remember correctly, seems like being wearing out of good frames.

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Slovak border crossing with Ukraine blocked as wider truck protest looms. (As titled, by @reuters) I went to check nearby. Loaded a roll of film and sat into a car. A dozens trucks on the highway at standstill. Unusual sight near Durdosik village. About the war, what else can I do. I also have friends there. Or had. War affects everything around, everybody and everywhere. It is a shame of human race.

Yes, I have song played in a car, of course. Pygmy Lush - It's A Good Day To Hide It is sort of, sad. As my thoughts there.

Driving for the light 14:23 - 25.11.2023 Jano Urda