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  Gallery Of Photo Montages By Stefan Prohaczka - France

As far as I can remember, since I was a kid, color pencils and gouache were my favorite toys.
It seemed, then, that my parents just couldn’t provide enough blank paper to satisfy this early "creative" urge of mine! I recall how I was eagerly waiting each and every week for the day when the laundry came back home freshly clean up and ironed, because it was delivered in a large size white sheet of paper I regularly turned into another one of my weekly masterpieces. But I also had that taste for using scissors and glue, and my Dad’s newspapers as well as my Mom’s magazines all ended as collages of all kinds. So, you see, today, only the used media has changed.
It wasn’t that my "creations" then were that good but, in kindergarten and later, they had "something" that made adults say... Oh, it’s stunning ... which wasn’t necessarily a compliment in their own aesthetic standards.
Mostly, I had this interest (fascination) for images, illustrations, pictures... all kind of pictures... especially those people usually look at but do not really "see" : ads, posters, banknotes, packaging, tickets, magazines layout, etc... Since then, it never left me.
I’ve been lucky enough to be encouraged on that "creative" path by my parents and, later, the ENSBA in Paris (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts) seemed to be the right thing for me do.

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