Balázs Varga —Pipe Dream

Pipe Dream is a noun

1. a fanciful or impossible plan or hope

Word origin: alluding to dreams produced by smoking an opium pipe

In this project my main interest lies in the exploration of the subconscious and dreams. Photography is a good tool for discovery, as with analogue camera I don’t see the results immediately. What makes the process difficult, is the reality connected nature of the medium.

Pipe Dream is a visual record of a 4 years period of my life. These days were happy, but also lonely in a sense. I met a lot of people, and went to interesting places looking for something, that I didn’t even know what it is. Alcohol and drugs were also taking part in the story, which help to think less, and get closer to the subconscious . The pictures aim to get in connection with the viewers mind in the deepest sense. While making the pictures I was trying not to keep myself to a concept, just shooting from the gut. When I was editing the photos later, I tried to choose the ones which are the most timeless, and connected to the collective subconscious.

To understand reality is my pipe dream.

Balázs Varga lives and works mainly in Budapest, Hungary. He started photographing in 2007. Up until 2014, he mostly did street photography, the principles of which still has a large effect on his current work, along with his studies in sociology. Since than he is working on different projects and assignments. The genres fall between existential art and subjective documentary photography.

For more information, please contact Balázs Varga at: milkywaystandard@hotmail.com or visit: www.nebulonphotography.net/
Interview with Balázs Varga here