Yareah Magazine

The first time that I saw Bogdan Ater's photos, I was shocked. It was the same impression that I have lived before... in front of the terrible Barroque paintings: Ribera, Valdés Leal, Carreño... How can a so young person create a shake which lasts hours? Shadows and lights, blood and flesh, life and death… eternal passion dialoguing from contradictory feelings: Eros and Tanatos would say old Greek philosophers; real life would answer Caravaggio, the father of Tenebrism and, what is more important, of Naturalism, that movement which tried to reflect Men’s truth. But what would say Bogdan Ater?
It is not my truth what I want to show, I left painting and I have preferred photography to express my art because this one allows me to see mankind and nature without implying your own way of thinking, it is much more objective, less big-headed, I dislike being the protagonist of my art. However, I like to create worlds, fantastic worlds which reflect Men’s feelings and possibilities. All is out and I like to see things more than once, I like to fixe them, to share them.
Photography is still a young art, it needs a dialogue with the past: Dalí o Caravaggio have served me to abandon my selfish thoughts and to enter in the fantastic kingdom of colours and shadows, these ones which produces laughs and worries, transparencies and shapes: new worlds, with a new technique, built on the old ones.
The last time that I saw Bogdan Ater’s photos, I was impressed. It was the same impression that I have lived before… in front of every person who is trying of giving us a present, a new creation: Art.

**No os perdais el artículo en español de Martín Cid sobre Bogdan Ater del pdf!!!!