The contrasting nature of the North makes one realize that in addition to the fairy-tale nature colored in watercolors by master illustrator and king of children's fantasy John Bauer, full of unusual creatures derived from Swedish folklore, there is also a nature full of anxiety, darkness and mysticism, reminiscent of Nordic shamanism and Old Scandinavian sagas. Bauer's illustrations captured the imagination of generations of Swedes. They believed that nature was a product of...
Essays
I open the hotel door and the first thing that hits me is the solitude of the colors. Then there is silence, in which light subtly walks. It attracts my bewildered gaze, leads me discreetly, invites me to explore a world unknown to me. I turn the page, as if opening another door of another world written in light and silent colors. The more I discover, the faster I disappear; I disappear as a passive observer, as a human being,....
Much more can probably be said on the subject by art historians or cultural scholars involved in the preservation and study of the photographic archives left behind by photojournalists employed until 1989 in the editorial offices of local weekly newspapers, covering mainly medium-sized cities and their adjacent regions, since the local so-called county press (in today's form of municipalities and...
After a ten-year hiatus, here we are again. In a "slightly" different, because online form, but substantively the same. As in 2000-2012, we create our magazine out of love for photography and great respect for its creators, as well as for the work of those who write about photography - critics, historians and theorists of photography, whose articles we will include. This formula, let's call...
Julia Stachura: We are in the Provincial Public Library and Center for Cultural Animation in Poznan. At first glance, I would not associate this place with photography, and as it turns out, it plays a special role here. Tell us something about yourself, what is your artistic background and what paths led you to the photography department? Matthew Kiszka: I studied photography at the...
Many metaphors are used in relation to photography to convey the nature of its ambiguous and intriguing imagery. Some of them refer to its relation to time: photography as embalming time, photography as history, as a record of past time. Others refer to its pictorial relation to the world, to the places pictured, and embrace photography as a window or as a mirror....
Come here, Youth, come! Behold, a new morning rises, A picture of truth hitherto unknown, Doubt and clouds of reason, Disputes for the crowd's delight - Behold, they have dispelled. Madness is a dark forest, It's a labyrinth of madly tangled roots. How many have fallen there! What they should care for, They do not know; In darkness for bones they stumble The dead in this wilderness. I...