Description
Andrew Jerzy Lech was the second artist invited to create his Września Collection (Bogdan Konopka had worked in Września a year earlier). Andrew decided to take so-called firefighter portraits, that is, posed portraits of people who know they are being photographed and want it. As a result, the New Jersey-based artist's photography became a major social event for the Września community - several thousand residents of the city and borough of Września found themselves in front of his large-format panoramic camera over the course of several weeks - from single portraits of two, three or more people, to groups of several and a dozen, to hundreds of people in a single photo. The fact that Lech was photographing residents was discussed "around town"; initially it was the photographer who was looking for models to photograph, but over time so many people and groups approached him that he was forced to turn down many proposals because he had a limited amount of 6 x 22 inch film, which, by the way, was made to special order in China.
The publication, which concluded the project, can hardly be called a book, since it is a kind of author's portfolio, i.e. a box with loose sheets of paper, on which all photographs were reproduced at a scale of 1:1. Printing was done using three component colors (triton). The whole is complemented by texts by the photographer himself, as well as Lena Wicherkiewicz, Piotr Komorowski and Waldemar Sliwczynski. The patron of the Września Collection was and is Tomasz Kalużny, Mayor of Września.