Long-term documentary projects are not an overly common choice among photographers today. There are several reasons for this. The media lives on fast news, an overwhelming number of photos are published on mass social media - where they also capture the attention of viewers for only a fraction of the time. Many modern photographers seduced by the technical ease of recording digital photographs succumb to mass trends, publishing easily digestible images online,...
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If I had to answer the question of what photography is, I would answer that creating an image, the basis of which is independent thinking. If someone were to ask me what life is about, I would answer similarly - that life is about independent thinking every minute of it. For several years I have been making self-portraits, my figure has become an indispensable part of my photographs, using...
When you look at the photograph, think for a moment that perhaps she is gazing at you too. It's such a perfect meeting of gazes. All photographs are created in space, on a small planet, on the edge of our galaxy. The human photographer is a humble part of the great process of creating the cosmos, spanning billions of years. Links and relationships occur everywhere, we are made of the same...
The idea was, as they say, simple, but in the end not so ingenious, to achieve in the art of photography a new, hitherto rare aesthetic quality, and perhaps hidden in it (in this quality) an interesting or novel rhetorical message. Well, Michal Sobczak, from January 1 to December 31, 2021, daily took (from...