3rd Edition of the Unstuck Photography Contest!
You are cordially invited to participate in the 2nd edition of an extraordinary artistic event, which is undoubtedly the Unstuck Photography Contest. This competition does not play for prizes and lacks the element of competition, which makes it a proposal for the greatest enthusiasts and lovers of photography, for whom participation itself is a pleasure and a reward.
The proposed formula for the competition flows directly from its history. Born in pandemic confinement, its purpose was to offer a break from the overwhelming onslaught of frightening information from a world engulfed in epidemic. Initiated as an online pastime offering a moment of respite for friends in the photography community, it quickly evolved into a nationwide event, resulting in a photography exhibition featuring nearly 100 works by both established and aspiring artists. Among the authors who submitted their competition proposals were well-known figures of the Polish photographic scene, such as Byrczek, Germanek, Górski both Leszek and Marcin, Kaleta, Goluch, Leszczynska-Kaszuba, Mendrek, Muskalski, Pranagal, Protasiuk, Sidorowicz, Krzeminski, Strzoda, Warzynski, Wolny.
The competition, prepared selflessly, at home, by a group of photography enthusiasts for photography enthusiasts, presented the works of many Polish artists in a post-competition exhibition, becoming an interesting cross-sectional review of creative attitudes in Poland in the memorable year 2020. The competition also selected winners, including probably the most important figure in the Polish photography scene today, Iwona Germanek. Other laureates included jury honors for Jakub Byrczek, Grzegorz Sidorowicz, Marcin Bratek, Agnieszka Zaręba and Marcin Jankowski.
BLACK LIGHT
Photography is like Plato's cave. When you let a ray of light into it, the cave comes alive, images are created, worlds are born. A narrow streak of light transforms a space that is empty and black into a vibrant world of images.
Just like in the cinema, during a screening - we know as much about the fate of the characters as the image reveals. A narrow streak of light reflected from the screen fills the viewer with light, illuminates the mind otherwise black and empty, transforms it into a world of images full of life and meaning.
Each of us is like a spectator in a movie theater, like a cave dweller. He understands only as much as he reads from the image. Images from the world of the senses penetrate into the world of sensation, the world of thought, the world of intellect and the world of ideas. The peel-off photograph translates the images from these worlds back into the images of the world of senses. The circle closes. Man learns about the world by experiencing images from the senses, remembers impressions and renders them in the form of photographic images. This is decoupled photography.
The light that brings the image to life, if too bright, will overexpose the photo, blind the viewer, electrocute the mind. Too dark, it will not lighten the darkness. The light of the picture must be good. Good light is black light. The camera, like a demiurge, measures the right portion of black light. In the world of images, it is the causal force - it creates, brightens or covers the darkness. It itself remains in the shadows.
You are cordially invited to participate in the 2nd edition of the Unstuck Photography Contest entitled. "Black Light".
We expect photographic images that are a record of discovering the world through admiration and love, anger and anger, fleeting impressions and lasting experiences, searching for the truth in and about oneself, the truth about one's brights and one's shadows, depicting the path we have walked and the one we will walk. We expect images of the truth about the human condition in the turbulent times in which we live. We expect images carrying the black light of truth that are future testimonies of the past and present.
Competition is open to all photographers, while udepartment is free of charge.
The organizers do their work out of goodwill and free of charge, however, we bear the costs of preparing the post-competition exhibition, its transportation and installation, printing diplomas and purchasing gifts for the winners. Sometimes we order texts for publication in the press, and we also pay for advertising.
