APRIL 4, 6:30 PMOLD GALLERY ZPAF, WARSAWThe opening of the exhibition of Marek Szyryk's photographs will take place this Thursday, February 4, at 6:30 pm. Stara Galeria ZPAF will take you on a journey to the land of happy childhood, where time seems to have stopped, fun and a sense of unfettered freedom, peace and joy dominate.This coming Thursday, 4...
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If he could, he would have taken pictures of the Dalai Lama, Picasso and Kennedy. He believed that laughter had no value in portraiture. He loved the sense of mystery and loved to photograph in black and white. He appreciated color in the work of Mario Sorrenti and Paola Roversi, although he thought it didn't penetrate the skin as much as black and white. No wonder. After all, he grew up with all those American reporters....
It was 1992, and Czarnkow, a small town in Greater Poland in the district of Trzcianec and Czarnkow on the Notec River, was celebrating its 800th anniversary. Marek Pozniak, a native of Czarnkow but no longer living there, throws out an idea: let's take 800 photographs of residents for the town's 800th anniversary. The mayor "buys" the idea and the young photographer sets to work.Thanks to the favor of the principal of Elementary School No. 1 and several female teachers,...
Limestone as a building material has been used for centuries and in various regions of the country. For me, buildings and structures made of limestone look most beautiful in the area of the Krakow-Czestochowa Jurassic Highland, fitting into the landscape of limestone rocks, immersed in the Jurassic green, contrasting with the colors of autumn, wrapped in the white of winter.The architecture harmonizes with its surroundings and complements the natural landscape. Medieval fortresses,...
- With a certain shyness I took out of the drawer my text from years ago, which, I believe, has not grown old, because the Boguslaw Biegowski exhibition analyzed in it, one of the most important in his oeuvre, has never been shown in large professional galleries, except for the episode in Wegrowork, which I refer to in my text - so began the letter of Krzysztof Szymoniak, who...
Even an empty landscape is full of vague presences for me, actually a landscape cannot be empty, it always takes form. When I face the space, I'm in it at the same time, and when I'm left alone with it, being like a medium, I can sense a gentle vibration, it's emptiness.Marek Noniewicz, Skrzetusko skwerko przy Zespoół Szkół Budowlanych, Bydgoszcz, 2004 (now altered)"Machines ...
Rafal Swosinski is one of those photographers who, instead of "philosophizing", simply prefer to photograph. And that he is not lacking in talent, beautiful photographs come out....We are not interested today in the entire oeuvre of this author (there will be time for that...), but only in a certain episode in his photography, namely the photos taken by him in Górka Klasztorna near Lobżenica....