Description
In his introduction, Waldemar Sliwczynski, editor-in-chief, wrote:
Afghanistan is unfashionable, boring
Even in the media, which will always be "sensation-seeking," this topic only makes the headlines when some of our people - soldiers or civilians - are killed. Public discussions about the meaning of our participation in this war, christened with the propaganda term "war on terror," are rare. Also in art, including in photography. Photographs in the series of "what it's like over there" or "how our soldiers have a hard time" do not have a clear message, in particular, they can hardly be called anti-war photographs, regardless of the intentions of the photographers. Therefore, this issue of our magazine is largely devoted to issues related to the war in Afghanistan, including our Polish participation in it. The Afghan block of articles and photographs will certainly not answer the basic question of why we need this war, but perhaps it will become one of the voices in the public debate. Every war, including this one, poses enormous challenges, including for photographers. And I don't mean the courage to go "as close as possible" to mines, enemy or other cannons, but a completely different kind of courage. The courage to think independently and the ability to defy the mainstream.
In the issue you will also find, dear readers, a lot of other material and presentations of photographic work. The artist of the issue is Andrzej Jerzy Lech, whose retrospective exhibition (premiered at the Fotofestiwal in Lodz in 2010) is still traveling the world (he is currently visiting the Month of Photography in Bratislava). I highly recommend this material, as well as Adam Mazur's synthetic article on fairly recent Polish photography, by authors already born in free Poland (...)
Table of Contents:
Radoslaw Sikorski, History of a single photograph
Adam Mazur, Apocalypse According to Christopher Miller
Monika Piotrowska, Krassowski's "Afghanistan." Emotional lecture.
Bogdan Konopka, Eric Bouvet's Fourteen Afghan Missions
Witold Kanicki, Suzanne Opton: the faces of war
Ignatius Marecki, War on photos, photos at war.
Ignatius Marecki, First victim
Jerzy Kalwak, Optimism is blindness in one eye
Anna J. Loyevskaya, Afghanistan
Lena Wicherkiewicz, Photographs of a passing world
Bogdan Konopka, America according to Béchet
Catherine Majak, Taryn Simon - fate unraveled into chapters
Zbigniew Tomaszczuk, Together and Apart - by Marcin Federak
Kuba Ryniewicz, RGB, color waves, mix and something else
Youth portfolio - Kamil Zacharski
Marcin Buras, Photographer with no memory
Agnieszka Gniotek, The old end and the new beginning
Magdalena Komborska, Catchers from the corners of the world....
Marianna Michalowska, Notes on the unobvious
Reviews
Books
Adam Mazur, Galleries of sensitivity - about the latest polish photography
Chronicle