November 22 and 23, 2024 / Pix.house gallery ul. Głogowska 35a, Poznań
You are cordially invited on November 22 and 23, 2024 to Pix.house for the conclusion of the photography season. There will be an exhibition, discussions, meetings and book launches ahead.
Exhibition of the winner of the Talent of the Year 2024 competition in the CuratorLab category - Anka Jaworska
All the hitherto unseen bustle of the world
date of vernissage and meeting with the author: 22.11.2024 | 18:00
Meetings, premieres, discussions
deadline: 23.11.2024
12:00 - networking meeting "Photo Education - Education through Photography". Discussion of representatives of academia, animation and culture. Participants will include: Dr. Agnieszka Babinska (Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk), Dr. Paweł Starzec (School of Form), Jakub Dziewit, Jadwiga Janowska (UJD in Czestochowa), UAP prof. dr. hab. Jarosław Klupś, dr. Kamila Kobierzyńska (UAP Poznań), Julia Stachura, dr. Maciej Frąckowiak, prof. UAM dr. Maciej Szymanowicz, dr. Adrian Wykrota (UAM Poznań), Tobiasz Jankowiak, Aleksandra Polerowicz, Mateusz Kiszka (Department of Visual Arts WBPiCAK Poznań)
14:30 - zine launch after documentary workshop My Fyrtel 2024 and presentation of participants' projects
16:00 - lunch/coffee break
17:00 - book launch Karol Szymkowiak "0169-8629 5223-01750" - The discussion with the author will be moderated by Prof. Rafal Drozdrowski
18:00 - book launch Anna Bedyńska "Forever Mine" - discussion with the author will be moderated by Martyna Nicinska.
My Fyrtel 2024
People participating in the ninth edition of the documentary photography workshop
and socially engaged MY FYRTEL / MY SPACE 2024, organized by the Pix.house Foundation: Mariia Filonenko, Aleksander Joachimiak, Jacek Koslicki, Konrad Koźmiński, Justyna Lichota, Katarzyna Łoś, Jakub Nowaczyk, Waldemar Radecki, Monika Ralcewicz-Ciaiolo, Adison Rynkiewicz, Wojtek Skibicki, Joanna Skrobała, Bartłomiej Śnierzyński, Martyna Sumisławska, Zosia Marysia Wojtkowiak
The meeting will feature a presentation of participants' projects and the launch of a publication.
Conducting workshops: Michał Adamski, Mariusz Forecki, Adrian Wykrota
Publication design: Krzysiek Orłowski / Zinteka
0169-8629 5223-01750 – Karol Szymkowiak (Winner of Talent of the Year 2024 / ZinCall category)
Project Description:
In the middle of 2023, experts from the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management recorded a new visibility record of 10.38 meters of water transparency vertically down on Lake Powidzkie. The largest lake in Greater Poland has thus been declared the cleanest in Poland. The body of water is covered by a silence zone, has well-developed flora and fauna, and has been a popular recreation and leisure destination for decades. Many people in the area, like myself, associate the Powidzkie Lake above all with carefree childhood, learning to swim, first tent trips, sailing, relaxation, a safe haven.
A parallel reality is playing out in the immediate vicinity of the lake. Just a few kilometers away, in 1953, during the Cold War, the Soviets began construction of a military air base, and to this day it remains Poland's largest military airfield. A few years ago, the Pentagon revealed a top-secret study titled Strategic Air Command's Nuclear Weapons Requirements Study for 1959. Among the approximately 2,300 targets in Eastern Bloc countries and China that the U.S. Strategic Air Command was to bomb using nuclear bombs in the event of World War III, there is also an airport in Powisd. The number of this target is 0169-8629 5223-01750.
Currently, it is home to the 33rd Powisdz Transport Air Base, which is the place where, among other things, large C-130 Hercules transport aircraft are stationed. At least a thousand US troops are also stationed in Powidz. In 2023, a new LTESM-C logistics and equipment complex was opened on land adjacent to the base for long-term storage and repair of US Army equipment. Also under construction are an MSA combat assets depot, DABS mobile airbase system storage facilities and a BFS fuel depot.
At least 100 hectares of forest have already been cleared for the construction of military facilities, some of which lay within the Natura 2000 area and the Powidz Landscape Park. In places where just a few years ago there were only dirt roads, wide highways and traffic circles capable of accommodating heavy equipment have been built. In the vicinity of the base there are places for soldiers, which often make caricatured references to American symbolism. At the same time, an increasingly dense development of cottages and other recreational facilities is being built along the shores of the lake. Meanwhile, water in the lake has been declining in recent years, for which the activities of a nearby open-pit mine are mainly responsible, but also global warming, the effects of which include low annual precipitation and a general rise in temperatures.
As a result of the aforementioned military investments, the Powidz facility is becoming a large aviation, logistics and equipment complex and one of the more important European NATO bases, which is certainly on the list of strategic objectives, though obviously of different powers than before. The airport, the base, the forests, the surrounding villages and the lake have been given a new number.
Publication design: Krzysiek Orłowski / Zinteka
Chairing the meeting: Prof. Dr. Rafał Drozdowski
Publisher: Pix.house foundation
Karol Szymkowiak - photographer and cultural animator, curator of the Wrzesin Collection. Member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers. Scholarship holder of the Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region in the field of culture (2023). Lecturer in photography at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2016-2019 member and vice president of the Fotspot Association. In 2011-2015 member of the Fotodialog Group in Wrzesnia, co-organizer of the Fotodialog Festival. Specializes in documentary photography. Participant of many collective exhibitions. Winner of photography awards and prizes. Author of cycles, among others: Immobile Travelers (2013), C'è Sempre un Tango (2018), 0169-8629 5223-01750 (2024).
Forever Mine The biggest difference is that technology and the internet has speeded everything up tremendously in just a few years. We take the instant transmission of photos and text for granted. As a photojournalist for 60 years, I well recall a different time when I would send packages of undeveloped rolls of film with hand written captions to editors all across the world. DHL and FedEx were vital for my international work, even the regular mail system on occasion. Then digital cameras and the internet came along, changing everything, and a lot more time had to be spent at the computer. Newspapers were the first to take advantage of the technology as they require a quick turnaround for news stories and photo quality was less demanding. It took longer for color magazines to adapt, the sort I worked with, who had to wait until digital photography improved. Online media didn't exist at all until relatively recently but it certainly didn't kill print media, as some predicted. Anna Bedyńska
Project Description:
Japan's justice system is based on 19th-century family rules that do not recognize the division of parental authority and do not consider the abduction of a child by one parent a crime. As a result, more than 150,000 children lose contact with mom or dad every year.
Japan is the only G7 country where, after a divorce, custody rights are vested exclusively in one parent, while the other parent is stripped of parental rights. He has no right to know where the child lives, where he studies, how he feels. He has no right to meetings.
One day you're a parent, the next you're not, the police and the court say, "Go home, forget you were a parent! Imagine that your child is dead," recalls one of the characters in the series.
Parents, however, cannot forget. Tomas Savicas last saw his daughter Gabriele more than eight years ago. He still catches himself looking in strollers on the street for his nine-month-old daughter - that's how old Gabriele was when she was taken from her home by his ex-wife.
"Under the current law in Japan, the parent who manages to take the children with him or her more quickly will be granted custody of the children." - Richard Delrieu, a professor at Kyoto Sangyo University and chairman of the SOS Parents Japan association, himself deprived of custody of his son, explains in a paper on family law in Japan. "The court tolerates child abduction." - Delrieu adds. After the child has been in the new residence for six months, the abducting parent gains legal superiority over the spouse. He is the one who is granted custody of the child.
It often happens that a person deprived of parental rights must - despite having no contact with the child - pay alimony until the child reaches the age of twenty-one. Between 10TP4T and 30% of the amount set aside for alimony goes each month into the accounts of lawyers who helped win the case to award it.
Publication design: Andrzej Dobosz / dobosz.studio
Chairing the meeting: Martyna Nicińska
Publisher: Pix.house foundation
Anna Bedyńska - At the center of her interests is always the human being. She directs her camera towards those who live in the shadow of the big world, often on the fringes of social and economic life. She tries to capture the social changes taking place in contemporary society, such as the evolution of the role of the father or the situation of women in a social, cultural and political context. The "Dad in Action", "Clothes for Death" and "Kids go Home" projects have been used as social campaigns for the humanization of death and birth, and the "Spot the dot" set of photographs has been used as a project to support skin cancer prevention. Anna Bedyńska's domain is reportage, often referring to taboo subjects. In the project "Forever mine" she combines photos and sound to convey the story of parental abductions in Japan.
She is a winner of the World Press Photo award and the Prize of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2013). She graduated from PWSFTviT in Lodz and the School of Film and Documentary Theater in Moscow. Her Russian series "Innocently Convicted" won the title of Photo of the Year in Grand Press Photo 2017. Member of the Canon Ambassador Program (2013-2018), Women Photographers and Polish Women Photographers. She has lived and worked in Warsaw, Moscow, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bucharest.
Organizer:
Foundation Pix.house
Curatorial supervision and coordination of the event: Adrian Wykrota
Project team: Katarzyna Grażewicz, Anna Molter, Michał Adamski, Andrzej Dobosz, Mariusz Forecki
The activity is carried out under the project "PIX.LAB - educational laboratory of photography | a long-term program of cultural and educational activities", which is co-financed by the City of Poznań and the Marshal's Office of the Wielkopolska Region.
Patronage of the networking meeting:
Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts at UAM