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Adam Magyar is 38 and in addition to light, he is into bits, chips and darkness.

MOSSLESS: A lot of your work requires careful attention to detail in digital imaging, what sort of training do you have with this?
ADAM MAGYAR: I do not have any formal training in digital imaging or programming. I am self-taught in this respect. A school might have provided me with a good foundation, but I use technologies for my photo projects that are not for photographic purposes in the first place, so the questions I need to find the answers for require a good deal of patience and perseverance anyway. I consider this part of my work crucial, and part of the creative process. I believe that my programming solutions are not the shortest or the most elegant ones but whenever a question arises I just cannot stop until I answer them. Anyhow, all my technical researches serve the purpose of creating photos that are valuable in the photographic sense. 

ML: Although you mention that you have traveled widely, you do not specify as to why. What is it that drives you to other countries / cities and how has that become a part of your own life’s structure?
AM: The town I come from was sort of a safe haven for raising a child. But then this child wanted to find out what’s in the big wide world. As simple as that. And traveling turned out to be a decisive experience. I can not think and work when I feel at home, so the best I can do is to be “somewhere else” as much as I can. How is it part of my life structure now? It is my life structure itself, I guess. And I’m still very curious where this road leads me.

ML: Do you look at other work? If so, who inspires you the most? 
AM: Theo Jansen and Misha Gordin.

ML: Your photographs integrate a lot of people in a single frame. Have you ever faced any problems with the subjects (such as model releases) or stitching of the photographs themselves?
AM: Sure, I faced problems, but not with the ‘models’ themselves. As I take photos in public spaces, I need to reckon with all sorts of issues you can hardly get prepared for. One of these happened in New York, where I was taken to a police station for using suspicious devices in the subway. However, my worst problem is of a different nature. The flickering light in subways is always a real headache. 

ML: We are entering 2011, do you have any new projects in mind?
AM: A have a few. I hope I’m good & quick enough to complete them in the following years. 

ML: Whats one thing that has genuinely surprised you?
AM: I am supposed to have a surprising answer for this that I don’t have. Yet.