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...
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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...
With the end of the story, the reader makes a decision [...], chooses one solution or another, as a result of which he gets out of fantasy. If he decides that the laws of reality remain untouched and allows the explanation of the described phenomena, we say that the work belongs to another genre: the uncanny. If, on the contrary, it decides that, given the phenomenon, a new law of nature must be considered....
Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Central Europe... Whatever we call this area marked at its inception by both Byzantine and Frankish Empire influences, thinking about it triggers emotions over and over again, from uncertainty to nostalgia to awe, and sometimes a whole diverse range of feelings, as seen in literary or cinematic narratives describing the European phenomenon. For an outside observer, the...
It's a strange feeling when a man living in the same time as you presents you with the archaeology of your time, your country, your history. I first saw Christoph Grill's work five years ago on a table during a portfolio review in Bratislava. These were photographs taken in the former Soviet Union. Many people photograph there. The post-Soviet reality is for young photographers....
Many Polish photographers after World War II until now have been trying to tackle one of the most difficult subjects of Polish reality - Silesia. How to present its synthetic vision, and above all the people and their problems, as well as the degraded environment and architecture? Such an attempt was also made by Jerzy Wierzbicki, who had already faced the subject of...
Poverty, unemployment and rural overpopulation are the main reasons for labor migration in Asian countries. The main destination of this migration is the oil-rich countries of the Persian Gulf region affiliated with the so-called GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council). Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman). There are several reasons for this. The cultural center of the Middle East is the region....
This article had a chance to go down in the history of "Fotografia Quarterly" as interesting and beautiful, but it passed only as interesting. Its protagonist, Tomasz Gudzowaty, sent a dozen of his beautiful photographs to the editorial office, but at the same time asked for the text of the article, which was written by Renata Gluza, then a journalist for the "Press" monthly. And it began... - You'd better not show him the article before....
When you look at the photograph, think for a moment that perhaps she is gazing at you too. It's such a perfect meeting of gazes. All photographs are created in space, on a small planet, on the edge of our galaxy. The human photographer is a humble part of the great process of creating the cosmos, spanning billions of years. Links and relationships occur everywhere, we are made of the same...
Waldemar Sliwczynski is known for his affection for photography, mainly through his self-published "Fotografia Quarterly". In fact, we met at the birth of the magazine, in the creation of which I decided to join, and this joint adventure continues to this day. Sliwczynski is a rare photography enthusiast who took the risk - including financial - of creating an ambitious magazine for connoisseurs....