14.04.2023 / 16.00 / Gallery Korytarz / Jelenia Góra 28/30 Bankowa St.
The title was created while wandering along an overgrown forest edge and observing the world through a thicket of branches. At the time, I felt like an independent observer, hidden behind a natural shelter among the trees.
When I am inside such a place I feel safe. This inner space makes us feel comfortable there. Just like when we were kids, when we built hiding places.
Nature clearly has the upper hand here, gradually absorbing what man has abandoned in these places and what is doomed to oblivion.
In my photographs I build spatial plans and work with depth of field.
I like to use a camera for the 13×18 cm negative format. I use the technique of contact copying the negative onto photographic paper. This slow way of working forces me to ensure that I have time to perceive my surroundings more intensely. It is also important to me that what I see on the camera's matte will be transferred in exactly the same format to the finished print.
Petr Zinke studied art photography at the Film and Television Department of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague from 1993 -1998, and from 1999 taught at FAMU as a lecturer (specializing in landscape photography). Since 2002 he has been working as a photographer at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where he deals with professional photographic documentation of works of art - sculpture, painting, drawing, graphics, applied art and architecture.
In his photographic work he deals with landscape. Since 2002, he has mainly photographed with a large-format camera and copied negatives using the contact method in the darkroom. In recent years, he has also been doing landscape photography using color technique. He also experiments with combining visuality with music and theater and photographic illustration interpreting classical music.