Exploring and experiencing the moment

I try not to be enslaved to anything. Also, although it may sound paradoxical, as in my paintings, I try to avoid focusing on the obvious and cheap effects, the seductiveness of the obvious.

- ALFRED FREDDY KRUPA

I never think for a long time about the possible outcome because I always react to the moment, to the situation I am in. Again, as in painting, context is important to me; It gives authenticity.

"My grandfather Alfred Krupa Sr. MFA (19151989) introduced me to the fields of painting and photography even before starting primary school in the mid-1970s, and later it was definitely my father, Mladen Krupa mag. (1949), who also introduced me to film camera shooting.

When I say that, I react for a moment, then by that, I mean that a certain visual situation gives me a "window of opportunity" for some exploration of the fundamental compositional elements. In my own retrospective, I see that I approach photography similarly to my painting; I remain faithful to minimalism, reduction, synthesis, rhythm, and the game of perspective relations.

Of course, as I mentioned, I try to break away from my own creative 'comfort,' so these works also demonstrate significantly different approaches and moods. Finally, photography (if possible) must contain a level of symbolism, multilayered.

Freddy Krupa took his first photograph back in 1977 when he was five years old (The Zorki camera with the yellow dot for focus, March 6, 1977, 'Grandfather Alfred in front of the monument to the painter Vjekoslav Karas'), and he has been extensively studying photography since the mid-1980s. This interest intensified during his art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in the early 1990s and continues today.

Krupa used various types of analog cameras (from a 120 mm folding camera via the Polaroid and a camera for the now non-existent cartridge-based 110 mm, to those for a classic 135 mm film). In addition, for years, he has been involved in photographs taken with a mobile phone(s).