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...
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Polish photography chronically suffers from a lack of figures, if not legendary, then at least of great stature. One of the few shrouded in an aura of contemporary authority is Krzysztof Miller. Born in 1962, Miller, like many of his contemporaries, not only participated in the events of martial law, but also actively began to convulse the decline of communist Poland with photography. In the second half of the 1980s, he approached the circle of...
On January 21, 2022, the exhibition "Paper Landscapes," featuring photographs, installations and objects by Kamil Myszkowski, opened at the Sielecki Castle Art Center in Sosnowiec. The exhibition was on display until April 16, 2022. The starting point for the exhibition "Paper Landscapes" is a series of photographs I have been implementing successively since 2018, in which I refer to classical photography....
When photographing the places that inspire him, Maciej Kuszela also tries to emphasize the personal nature of this inspiration. Therefore, the final form of these images is usually the result of various additional manipulations, which may be surprising when juxtaposed with the fact that the term "photojournalist" appears so often in the author's biography. However, it is understandable that when a photograph is created out of a purely personal need, it...
Writing that Wojciech Zawadzki was a great photographer is the same truism as writing that a great poet was, for example, a certain Slovakian. This everyone knows. Like any "seriousness," Wojciech Zawadzki continues to have an impact even after his death, which came for him in 2017. Less than five years later, or more precisely, from February 8 to March 18, 2022, in the extraordinary...
"This is actually a series about death," declares Wojtek Wilczyk when asked about the subject of his latest series Life After Life. If the photographs of parts or whole car bodies turned into roadside advertisements, flowerbeds and decorations at the end of their life encourage us to contemplate the passing of time and the transience of existence, they do so in an emotionally neutral way. The documentation created by Wilczyk...
There are few personalities among contemporary photographers as popular, influential and respected (and as often criticized) as Martin Parr. This is not only because of his numerous works, which have played and continue to play a major role in the development of both British and international documentary photography, influencing countless photographers around the world, but also because of his other...
Philip-Lorca diCorcia took a photograph in 1978 showing his brother Mario. The figure depicted in the photograph looks into an open refrigerator, illuminating the interior of the kitchen and the face of the portrayed with unnatural light. Undertaking an analysis of this work, Peter Galassi drew attention to the apparent ordinariness of the situation, occurring as a result of photographic direction. According to Galassi, diCorcia's experiment turned "a mundane event into an enigma." According to...
Danish writer Peter Hoeg wrote that any room serving some form of community abandoned becomes unreal... Kiljan Halldorsson - I am an amateur photographer living in Reykyawik. I started my photographic career 20 years ago, mainly focusing on black and white photography. During the last decade, I have focused my photography on abandoned farms and other abandoned dilapidated buildings - so for...
Looking at Igor Omulecki's work, one can get the impression that his photographs function above genre divisions, usually defining the internal dissimilarities of the medium of photography. Most often his name is associated with documentary, although this notion has been significantly blurred these days. Omulecki also not infrequently takes directed photographs, in which - unlike documents - the leading role is played by subtle...