Experimentation in photography is the path to freedom. Renowned abstract and theatrical photographer Krzysztof Bielinski opens the School of Experimental Photography.
– Experimental photography opens unlimited possibilities for carrying one's own visions. It is a path to creative freedom. Especially abstract photography, in which we break with reflecting reality and can convey the intangible, such as complex inner states - Krzysztof Bielinski says.
In Warsaw, the School of Experimental Photography. Its creator is Krzysztof Bielinski, author of extraordinary abstract and theatrical photographs. Classes will be conducted in several groups (stationary and online) at different levels, mentoring - individual meetings - is also possible.
– Can creative thinking be learned? This is not a school! Here you will not imitate someone else's photographic techniques, here you will discover your - Krzysztof Bielinski writes on the website of the School of Experimental Photography.
The school's founder says that his teaching method is all about out-of-the-box thinking, individual sensitivity and the search for a unique artistic language. - You will have to break with yourself to find yourself. Often we look for a safe zone in action, schemes that will make things easier for us. But staying with schemes prevents you from finding yourself and your unique artistic language. In my author's teaching method, the most important thing is the search for a unique artistic language. Everyone has their own sensitivity, I will help you to take care of it and develop it. Not only talent, but sincere commitment is the most important for achieving artistic goals. Therefore, I invite only people who are willing to devote a lot of time and are ready to work.
Krzysztof Bielinski is an artist photographer specializing in abstract photography. He is one of the leading Polish theater photographers, author of photographs for more than nine hundred domestic and foreign performances. He has published several albums of theater photography: Magnifier/Theatre, Trelinski, Staniewski-Gardzienice Antique, BTL/Puppets, Warlikowski/Theatre (co-author), Kudlička. Volume I (co-author). He is the creator of theater posters. Since 2008, he has been a permanent photographer for the Grand Theater - National Opera. He regularly collaborates with more than a dozen other theaters.
He taught theater photography and poster design at the Warsaw Film School and at the UW Photography. In 2019, he became a juror of the 5th Theater Photography Competition, organized by the Zbigniew Raszewski Theater Institute. In 2020, he led the first online Master Class in theater photography in Poland in cooperation with the Zbigniew Raszewski Theater Institute, ending with an exhibition at the ZPAF Old Gallery.
In September 2020, in the pages of the monthly magazine "Theatre" he announced Manifesto of Creative Theater Photography. In 2021, he was named 2020 Artist of the Year by the magazine Post Scriptum. He currently teaches abstract photography at the Studio of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers.
The School of Experimental Photography launches in December. For more information, visit: szkolafotografiieksperymentalnej.pl And on Christopher Bielinski's website: bielinski.art.pl; the artist's profile on Instagram -. www.instagram.com/krzysztof_bielinski/
