I look at the shadow cast by the tree. The white man's civilization begins with a "tree of life," and each individual is entitled to a pair of planks at the end of his life. Without wood, there would have been no Noah's Ark or Christopher Columbus. Nor would there likely have been a kola or a cross. Without the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," there would have been no original sin, and thus no trees....
...What cannot be spoken of, must be kept silent about... Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosoficus Eva Rubinstein's photographs are transparent like water in a mountain stream. They are also transparent (diaphanous) like a calm lake, where through the reflection in its surface something unseen peeps through from the depths. And just as the water in an agitated stream blurs the shapes of the stones within,...
The United States of America is - in addition to everything else - also the realm of photography. As early as 1888, Georges Eastman launched a camera capable of taking 100 photographs. From that moment, photography began its massive career as a national hobby, and on this basis the Kodak company built its empire. To be fair, it must be added that at the same time Americans...
I am, I exist, I live. Three words, none of which brings us closer to the mystery of our existence. I and my body, the world and my reality in it. The eternal lessons of darkness*. The body is the visual evidence of our being, the bridge between the spiritual interior and the external material world. Uniquely, it happens to a person to establish a thread of communication with the individual - other - interior....
With photography it's a bit like witchcraft: the darker it gets, the closer it gets to other worlds. And since darkness is not conducive to color, shamans like to resort to forms of existence at the edges of perception. From the dawn of time, photography has had something of a shamanic ritual about it, both in the technological aspect (darkroom) and the ritual that accompanied it for many years....
Nature has generously endowed the world with coils. Many kinds of reptiles or crustaceans boast the ability to coil their bodies, but other animals also make use of this shape - if only during sleep. What we observe in some species externally is much more common under the skin: nerve ganglia, brain ganglia, etc., to end up in the fetus, which until birth....
In these images - unlike in almost all of Pawel Zak's work to date - the glue of the whole seems to be above all white; so far, his photographs have been kept in fleshy, dense, dark, almost gloomy tones. The change from the so-called low key to high key is accompanied by the abandonment of the saturated grays of silver techniques in favor of the colors offered by the latest technologies....
Waldemar Sliwczynski is known for his affection for photography, mainly through his self-published "Fotografia Quarterly". In fact, we met at the birth of the magazine, in the creation of which I decided to join, and this joint adventure continues to this day. Sliwczynski is a rare photography enthusiast who took the risk - including financial - of creating an ambitious magazine for connoisseurs....