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...
Artists
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....
Photography is the medium that sometimes makes it possible to see the "invisible." That this is really the case is proven, for example, by the photographic experiments of a century ago initiated in the circle of the famous theosophist Helena Blavatsky. Thus, photography can touch the realm of the suprasensory and depict what is extremely rare and only known to some. Looking at the works of the Jelenia Góra-based artist Ewa Andrzejewska, it is not difficult to...
The idea was, as they say, simple, but in the end not so ingenious, to achieve in the art of photography a new, hitherto rare aesthetic quality, and perhaps hidden in it (in this quality) an interesting or novel rhetorical message. Well, Michal Sobczak, from January 1 to December 31, 2021, daily took (from...
Alexander Chekemynev, a photojournalist "of flesh and blood," has made a breakthrough into the canon of Ukrainian "high" photography. At the same time, it is worth noting that, as the author of several large, impressive photographic projects, he did not fall victim to the "disease of the 20th century," as design thinking in photography is sometimes referred to. Passport photosOne art student noted that for some time now artists have not been creating, a...