My first feeling after seeing some of the photographs sent by Maciej Bonk to the Youth Portfolio was: I want more! I immediately contacted the author with a request to send more photos, He sent, and thus our eyes can enjoy longer. Although the author is a young man, looking at his photographs I had the impression that his fascination with "nature" in the broadest sense, also...
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Her greatest project is the Georgian villages. By photographing them, she tells a personal story about the extraordinary inhabitants, their happiness and sorrows, traditions and rituals, work and daily life...a rich and beautiful culture in danger of disappearing. Traveling to many hardship- and poverty-stricken regions, Natela Grigalashvili has been documenting isolated communities and ethnic minorities - Georgia's last nomads - for years....
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,...
Magdalena Zolędź: Before we move on to Sara Kosmos, I would like to know something about you. How would you describe the theoretical background of your work and how is it related to your artistic practice? Sebulec: I studied animation at the Academy of Fine Arts' graphics department, while in the 3D field I am self-taught. On my own, I learned the techniques used by game character creators and...
Jerzy Wierzbicki's photographs of Oman in recent years both have something in common with and differ from his earlier works. In such series of works as "Gdańsk - Suburbia" (1995-2004) and "Post-Industrial Silesia" (2001-2006), he dealt with places that had suffered from the economic crisis. His attention was drawn to the devastated architecture and general temporariness of...
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...
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....
"Do you see these humps, these hills on the left side? That's the pleuritis your cousin had in his fifteenth year. [...] Do you see these caverns here? That's where the venoms that intoxicate him come from. "1 Experiments in recording microscopic images date back to the early history of photography. Among the many inventors attempting to photograph the fascinating microstructures of the world (they include...
The cover of a recently released publication dedicated to Ray Cook depicts him as a juggling clown surrounded by celebrities. This performer is magnificent, clever and talented. He brings to my mind the theater of the absurd, which is still not out of date. Indeed, in his references to homoerotic fantasy, the artist resembles the writer Jean Genet. Nevertheless, with works dating from the 1990s and the first...
The United States of America is - in addition to everything else - also the realm of photography. As early as 1888, Georges Eastman launched a camera capable of taking 100 photographs. From that moment, photography began its massive career as a national hobby, and on this basis the Kodak company built its empire. To be fair, it must be added that at the same time Americans...