I secretly always hoped that someday in a movie scene — you know, when the protagonist opens a locker — one of my nude photos would be hanging there. That would be something! A kind of photographic immortality between chewing gum ads and crumpled love letters.
Yesterday I was watching a documentary on Swiss television. With subtitles, naturally, otherwise I wouldn't have understood a word. At minute 18:22 I was suddenly wide awake. There in the construction workers' office hangs a naked butt on the wall. Wait a minute… is that photo… that's… could that be Anato? My photo?
My wife didn't believe me at first. Understandable — it's a butt photo like thousands that exist out there. But I know which images I've taken! It's like parents who can recognize their child from a hundred meters away by their behind (though the comparison here might be somewhat unfortunately chosen).
And so I actually recognized my own image, even though it was only visible in the background for about five seconds. It's from the erotic calendar "Backside" from 2023. Either the documentary is a bit older or the Swiss construction workers simply failed to buy a new calendar.

Admittedly, this isn't a Hollywood blockbuster. But I was still mischievously delighted and shook my head in disbelief. One of my photos, appearing so unexpectedly and out of nowhere! Between building plans and coffee cups, somewhere in a Swiss office, captured by a television camera.
What fascinates me most: that I recognized it so quickly. As if you were finding your own child in a department store — except here it's an artistically lit behind that just had its five minutes of fame on public television.
Maybe this is the modern version of Andy Warhol's "15 minutes of fame." Except with me it was more like five seconds. And in Switzerland. And with subtitles.
And that's exactly what we all want: for someone to look at our work and think: "Yes, that's beautiful. That keeps its spot on the wall." Even if it only lasts five seconds on television before it disappears again.