Maximus Mazar Interview
Q. You describe yourself as someone who’s 'always capturing something.' What’s one moment you chose not to capture, and why?
There are rare moments when I feel the camera would only take away from what’s unfolding. Once, in the mountains of Georgia, I watched a sunrise with someone I deeply cared for. The light was perfect, golden, unreal, but lifting the camera felt wrong. That moment wasn’t meant to be shared or frozen. It was meant to be felt. Some memories live best unrecorded because their essence is beyond any frame.
Q. Photography often freezes time, but emotion is fluid. How do you ensure your images still breathe after the shutter clicks?
I try to leave space in every image, a kind of emotional air that allows the viewer to enter it. The secret is not over-defining things. Imperfection, subtle movement, color that almost fades, these are the details that make a photo alive. I never want to trap emotion; I want to let it echo.
Q. The world sees your finished photos, but what does your unseen process look like before you even pick up the camera?
It starts with silence. I walk, observe, and wait for the world to align in a way that feels like a whisper. I study how light touches a surface, how people move through it. I often take mental photos before I ever lift the lens. Photography for me begins long before the click; it begins with attention.
Q. Many say photography is about perspective. What’s one thing the lens has taught you about yourself that the mirror never could?
The lens taught me patience and humility. The mirror reflects who I am; the lens reveals who I become when I’m present. It showed me that beauty isn’t about control; it’s about surrender. When I stop trying to perfect a moment, the real image appears.
Q. In an age of filters and instant edits, how do you preserve authenticity in your visual storytelling?
Authenticity comes from intention. I edit minimally, only to bring an image closer to how it felt in that moment, not to make it flawless. My goal is to make a viewer feel like they’ve been there, standing where I stood, breathing that same air. Realness has texture, and I never want to smooth it away.
Q. You’ve built an audience of hundreds of thousands. When does creating for yourself collide with creating for your followers, and how do you handle that tension?
That tension is always there. But I’ve learned that when I create honestly, from curiosity, not expectation, people feel it. The moment I start thinking about numbers, the soul disappears from the frame. I remind myself that my audience found me through truth, not trends, so I stay loyal to that.
Q. You often capture stillness within chaos. Is that a reflection of your inner world or the one around you?
Both. I think we all look for stillness inside movement, in life, in love, in the world. For me, photography is a form of meditation. It’s how I make sense of noise. The stillness I capture is the one I’m searching for within myself.
Q. Every artist has a recurring visual 'language.' What’s a subtle signature or theme in your work that only the keenest viewers might notice?
There’s often a human element, small, distant, almost fading into the landscape. It’s my way of showing how fragile and beautiful our existence is within the vastness around us. I also return often to muted tones, the kind of colors that feel remembered rather than seen.
Q. If you could photograph one memory from your future, what would you hope that image reveals about the person you’ve become?
I’d like it to be an image of calm, somewhere by the sea, camera by my side, not chasing light anymore but simply existing in it. I’d hope it reveals that I’ve learned to live as fully as I’ve seen, that the man behind the lens finally became part of the world he used to only photograph.
Bio:
Born in Odessa, Ukraine, and shaped by two decades along the windswept shores of Brighton, UK, Maximus Mazar is a photographer whose work lives between silence and movement. Now based in Cyprus, he captures the color and atmosphere of the world through travel and light, always chasing emotion rather than perfection. His images have been featured in galleries and curated spaces celebrating design, culture, and the beauty of simplicity. For Mazar, photography is not about taking pictures; it is about feeling them.
Interviewed by - Divya Darshni
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