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mon

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

About Me

I love my all stars. My holga and my bike. Cycling is my new addiction apart from overanalyzing and collecting memories. I watch far too many films when I should be doing something else. I prefer pastry to chocolate and Di Corcia to Richardson. I like people who care to make a difference. I rush to places where I don’t need to be. I forget names and numbers easily but never the faces. I talk too much when I shouldn’t and too little when I should. I love paradoxical complexity and making up words. Pandas and bears are the best but so are big white dogs or moody garden cats. Being caught up in the rain on a sunny afternoon is also nice. I don’t need mind altering substances to enjoy myself. At about 2am I say things that can be used against me later. I guess I’m quite straight forward and insanely random. I prefer to make drinks then to cook. I take way too many pictures and try to make sense of random words put together. I buy magazines to look at the pictures. I visualize and always feel like I should be living somewhere else. I like green. I like overstepping the line to see what happens next. Visiting Paris never bores me. I’ve never smoked a cigarette. I love being me. I look for perfection but then again I enjoy finding flaws in the most perfect of situations. I can be stubborn. I like stones. Rolling Stones. My favourite fruits are raspberries. I like other people’s houses and picnics on the beach. I’m addicted to music and herbal tea. Rumble rumble..Myspace Layouts -

My Interests

Aspiring photographer & freelance photo assistant. Check out my work at: http://www.monicajackiewicz.com. It will soon be up&running again. If you need a photographer for an event or for your own portraits get in touch. Atm I'm updating my folio and looking for interesting people to photograph, shooting digital, both studio&location. Want to reproduce some of my work? Please ask permission. Photographs do not need a copyright notice on them or to be registered to be protected by copyright law. All original work is copyright protected as soon as it is created.

Music:

Air, Peter and the Wolf, Cut Chemist, Calvin Harris, David Bowie, Nick Drake, Just Jack, Dusty Springfield, The Roots, De La Soul, Junior Boys, Depeche Mode, The Big Knife, Sebastien Tellier, Terry Callier, Roy Ayers, Astrud Gilberto, Iggy Pop, Scott Walker, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Flunk, Joan as a Police Woman, Jen Gloeckner, Guillemots, Royksopp, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Peaches, Sadlib, Tiga, Editors, Bebe, Vanessa Paradis, Francoise Hardy, Esther, Stan Getz, James Lavelle, Leftfield, Basement Jaxx, Nightmares on Wax, Koop, Stephane Pompougnac, Fink, Secret Agent on SomaFM, Husky Rescue, Groove Armada, Ben Folds, Milosh, Layo&Bushwacka, DJat, Demarkus Lewis&Mighty Kat, DJ Krush, Dj Shadow, Bent, Boards of Canada, Coloursound, Ian Brown, Bonobo, Moloko, The Kooks, The Zutons, Zero 7, Coltrane, Davis, PJ Harvey, Minnie Riperton, Victor Malloy, Belle&Sebastian, Kanye West, Gorillaz, The Cure, The Doors, Bad Religion, Jethro Tull, Jeff Buckley, John Martyn, Damien Rice, Doves, Bob Dylan, Beethoven, Beth Orton, Bebel Gilberto, Dave Brubeck, David Holmes, Air, Al-Pha X, bla bla.

Movies:

The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Breakfast on Pluto, Wild Strawberries, Brokeback Mountain, Sex and the city, LOST, Pulp Fiction, Leon, Crush, In my father's den, Swimming Pool, Magnolia, Requiem for a dream, The Jacket, The Hours, Lost in Translation, To die for, Vanilla Sky, Jackson Pollock, The Pianist, Knife in the Water, Vertigo, Rebecca, Eyes Wide Shut, Closer, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, The Dreamers, Cinema Paradiso, Vertigo, Stealing Beauty, Onegin, Rejs, When Harry met Sally, Sex and Lucia, Y tu Mama tam bien, Amores Peros, Never Ending Story, Camera Buff.

Television:

Don't own a tv. But I'm a big Lost fan! Especially for apres cushion throwing..

Books:

Anything on Photography. Gravity by Erica Wagner. Haruki Murakami. Elle Decoration.

Heroes:

Eggleston, Shore, Soth and Polidori.

My Blog

WHO'S JACK ???

thought some of you would like to see the work I've done for WHO'S JACK magazine... just browse through if you like, my work is on the cover and pages 26-31. The theme was Paparazzi and...
Posted by mon on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:43:00 PST

spring bear

" .. Practically falling over the edge of Midori's little bed, I held her in my arms. Nose against my chest, she placed her hands on my hips. My right arm curled around her back while I tried to keep ...
Posted by mon on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:26:00 PST

my private idaho

nice words. few words. just a thank you really to all the beautiful people i met here, some are friends, good friends while others just live in a little moments of this crazy virtual space. i think it...
Posted by mon on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:24:00 PST