마르틴 콜라르(Martin Kollar, 1971)는 체코슬로바키아(현 슬로바키아 공화국)의 질리나에서 태어나 브라티슬라바 예술 아카데미에서 영화학과, 카메라학과에서 공부했다. 그는 그곳에서 졸업한 후 프리랜서 사진작가와 촬영가로 일하고 있다. After는 Martin Kollar의 파트너인 Maria의 죽음 이후 결성되었다. 대격변 이후 시간이 천천히 흐르자 콜라르는 조심스럽게 자신의 사진 아카이브를 뒤지기 시작했다. 로케이션 스카우트와 함께 여행에서 얻은 수십 가지 자료에 의해 그는 함께 보낸 나날로 되돌아왔다.
∙ Pages - 64 pages
∙ Dimension - 200 x 255 x 14 mm
∙ Weight - 1.3 kg
∙ ISBN - 9781913620349
∙ Publisher - MACK
Martin Kollar (1971) Born in Zilina in Czechoslovakia (now Slovak Republic), studied at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava, the Film faculty, camera department. He has been working as a freelance photographer and cinematographer since he has been graduated there. “31st August 2019 … from that moment on, the way I look at the world has changed. Everything has changed. Maria’s untimely death, her decision to end her own life, has made a distinct cut, a sharp delineation of the before and after.” - Martin Kollar After was formed in the wake of the death of Martin Kollar’s partner, Maria. As time slowly went by after the cataclysmic event, Kollar cautiously started to browse through his photographic archive. He was returned to the years, months, and days they spent together by the scores of materials from trips they made to location-scout and film together. In their last year together, they had visited various research centres and scientific institutes as they started to prepare and shoot 'Chronicle', the film they were to make together. These excursions into the past happened in various stages, from Kollar’s original inability to bring himself to open the archive, through to periods of obsession during which he was unable to stop browsing through the multitude of photographs of his and Maria’s past life. What gradually started to emerge from the pictures were hidden contexts and threads he had not seen before. Kollar started to assemble them, but not with the aim of reconstructing their life. Instead, he sought to express how the before transcends into the after; how the most anticipated events always find you unprepared.
Martin Kollar (1971) Born in Zilina in Czechoslovakia (now Slovak Republic), studied at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava, the Film faculty, camera department. He has been working as a freelance photographer and cinematographer since he has been graduated there. “31st August 2019 … from that moment on, the way I look at the world has changed. Everything has changed. Maria’s untimely death, her decision to end her own life, has made a distinct cut, a sharp delineation of the before and after.” - Martin Kollar After was formed in the wake of the death of Martin Kollar’s partner, Maria. As time slowly went by after the cataclysmic event, Kollar cautiously started to browse through his photographic archive. He was returned to the years, months, and days they spent together by the scores of materials from trips they made to location-scout and film together. In their last year together, they had visited various research centres and scientific institutes as they started to prepare and shoot 'Chronicle', the film they were to make together. These excursions into the past happened in various stages, from Kollar’s original inability to bring himself to open the archive, through to periods of obsession during which he was unable to stop browsing through the multitude of photographs of his and Maria’s past life. What gradually started to emerge from the pictures were hidden contexts and threads he had not seen before. Kollar started to assemble them, but not with the aim of reconstructing their life. Instead, he sought to express how the before transcends into the after; how the most anticipated events always find you unprepared.