vernissage 23.09.2022 / hour: 17:00 / Sleńdzinski Gallery in Bialystok, 5 Victoria St.
The exhibition "A slice of reality" is a subjective picture of everyday life in London. Registered with the camera interesting events that literally happened on the street. A careful documentary record, short stories of a city of nearly 12 million people. The photographer's insightful look at the reality of a multicultural metropolis. Often one photo is one short story. Personal decoding of the culture of a great city, symbols and signs of the times captured on a color negative. Damian Chrobak's documentary street photography oscillates between seriousness, humor and sometimes balances on the thin line of the grotesque. An intelligent and sensitive look at the micro stories of the London world recorded in parts of a second behind the shutter curtain of a red dot camera.
Born in 1977 in Jastrzębie Zdrój (Poland), Damian Chrobak has been a member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers since 2010, and is the founder of Un-Posed, a street photography collective that brings together some of the leading artists in the genre who were born in Poland but work in different countries.
After studying at the Academy of Photography in Warsaw, Damian Chrobak moved to London in 2004, where he completed a course in black and white photography at the University of Arts in London. Since then he has been documenting the city's street life. His work has been published in the UK, Germany, the US, New Zealand, Poland and other European countries. Damian Chrobak is also the author of some book covers and recordings. The photographer currently lives in London and works on his documentary and street photography projects.
Street photography is characterized by an extraordinary sensitivity to aesthetic, psychological and sociological insights. The photographer catches the course of events surrounding seemingly insignificant moments and reveals their special importance. "Special to me in photography is a deeply humane reflection on the nature of the individual or social masses," he says. By capturing the everyday, he says, "we are surrounded by it most of the time, barely noticing it." This proves that the so-called ordinary, insignificant moments in life often have their own hidden meaning, are interesting, funny, quirky and memorable. Walking through the streets of a 21st century city, I try to capture on film something timeless, an eternal truth about people, the truth of which has not changed for hundreds, thousands of years.