...What cannot be talked about, must be kept silent about....Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosoficusEva Rubinstein's photographs are transparent like water in a mountain stream. They are also transparent (diaphanous) like a calm lake, where something unseen peeps through from the depths through the reflection in its surface. And just as the water in an agitated stream blurs the shapes of the stones within,...
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Looking at the photographs Maciej Sztorc sent to us, my first thought was to remember a saying by Andrzej Jerzy Lech: "the most important thing for your camera is what is 15 meters away from it."The meaning, and therefore also the implications of this phrase, are so capacious and extensive that developing it one could write many a dissertation. One...
It is said that a photographer should always have a camera with him, but in reality is this always the case, has it always been so? Is it only the professional photojournalist on his shoulder who inseparably carries a bag in which he carries a tool for capturing images of life? A full-time photographer can often enter where an ordinary Kowalski can no longer, but even in this case....
I knock on the door of the stone. - It's me, let me in. (...) - I don't have a door - says the stone - W. Szymborska,...
The author of the photographs wrote thus: The primary function of my photographs is to be more in a given place. The secondary is to show others how I see a place with the hope that someone will find such a view interesting, or similar to their own.The decision to publish photos from Ponidzie is not an easy one, as there are probably hundreds of photos taken there every day, many of which...
In 2020, the Arles Festival (Rencontres d'Arles), the oldest, most famous and richest in the world of photography, did not take place due to the pandemic. Last year it was held only on a limited scale. This year's official program for the 53rd edition, which runs from July 4 to September 25, again offered a large number of exhibitions - forty in Arles alone and fifteen in...
On the one hand, they built a multicinema On the other hand, they are expanding the cemetery ...
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 ...
"Boxing is not chess - here you have to think". - this golden thought of Jerzy Kulej, Olympic boxing champion from many years ago, went down in history not only of funny sayings of athletes. It was so surprising and "improbable" that it prompted ... thinking, which, however, does not have to be boxing.Michal Lewandowski is a chess player, but also a photographer with a love of nature, who, with the help of...
The photographic image is not something invented, but something found ...