The combination of archaeologist and documentary filmmaker must produce interesting results. And this is exactly what happens in the case of Wierzbicki. In his series, with the scientific precision of a researcher of the past, he reveals to us the secrets of the desert, which, contrary to popular belief, is not empty at all. As he says: I roam around desolate places and photograph what people leave behind in this boundless landscape. Some "constructions"...
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- I once pushed a police officer away to take a picture. It wasn't until later, when I got home, that I realized it was a "violation of the bodily integrity of a public officer on duty," which could have ended very badly for me, is how Piotr Nowak confessed to me recently. He was photographing, as he does every year, the Wrzesnia Music Weekend, or rather, as he usually does, the...
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....
On July 25, 2008, after a long and hard battle with cancer, Ireneusz "Eryk" Zjeżdżałka passed away, he was less than 36 years old. He was the editor-in-chief of "Kwartalnik Fotografia," as well as a promising and already established photographer, curator, critic, animator and lecturer on photography. Many young adepts and lovers of photography do not know Eric's work at all, or know it poorly, so on the occasion of the round...
On June 9 Jedrzej Paszak decided to pass away on his own terms. Jędrek's secular funeral (that's how his friends and acquaintances referred to him) took place on Wednesday, June 14 in Wągrowiec. Gathered at the grave were those closest to him from his childhood and Wągrowiec youth, friends from the photography collectives "Świetlica" and "Ciemnica", acquaintances, there were also people with whom he worked and collaborated....
What is born through Titus Poplawski's discipline and sensitivity definitely carries "beauty proper". His photographs not only seduce with visual magnetism, but say something more to us and about ourselves. They are an example of composite beauty, which we can explore and discover by penetrating the various layers, encountering that "proper" beauty for the author and viewer, which in...
- 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...
You ask what in my life of all the main thing, I'll tell you: death and love-both both. One I fear with black eyes, the other with fashionable ones. These two are my love and two my death. - Jan Lechońcolors fade symphonies quiet bells are heardlet us rejoice our hearts ...
The Board of the Wielkopolska Branch of ZPAF convened the first post-sandem meeting of members on Thursday, January 5. As I was driving to this meeting I received sad news - on the same day passed away the Man to whom this branch of ZPAF, and in general, the entire photographic environment in Poznan owes so much. It was thanks to his determination that it was in Poznan that photography found its way into the salons....
Arthur is an ultra-subjective and uncompromising photographer; he recognizes only the traditional technique, i.e. analog, personal processing of the negative and the print. Each copy is made with his heart and mind, and the goal of his photographic activity is to express the inner self, what is inside him and worthy of being revealed. It doesn't matter where he photographs, what matters is how and that he is the one with total power....