Attila-István Szántó is a Romanian-based photographic artist who creates his images within the camera, using multiple exposure techniques.
His work often features scenes from nature, urban structures, as well as portraits of children and adults — images that explore traces of time, memory, and presence. These are not documentary photographs, but layered visions: intersections of multiple moments, forms, and meanings.
Over time, a unique artistic approach and way of seeing has emerged behind the images, which the artist calls “the philosophy of touch.” This philosophy did not originate as a theoretical framework, but rather grew out of the images themselves — shaped by the experience of natural light, presence, the human gaze, and the material world.
At its core lies the recognition that an image does not merely depict, but bears witness — and that a work of art is not created afterward, but in the moment where seeing and touching happen at once.
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