With the theatre it was, as usual in life, by accident. Someone got sick there, someone couldn't take pictures. Mieczysław Kotlarczyk was then the director of the Rhapsodic Theatre. That's where I started my first shooting, in 1959. Kotlarczyk always called me "Mr. Andrzej", someone would correct it, "Well, I'm very sorry, Mr. Wojciech" and a moment later he would start "Mr. Andrzej". It was funny, but he was an extremely dynamic, lively man and that's how it started. I took photos at my own discretion, it was complete amateurism each time. None of us, photographers, had an education, graduated from a photography school.
Quote from interview; fototapeta.art.pl