Description
Ursula Czartoryska once used the term "thinking cameras" to describe those photographers who, above the recording-documenting properties of photography, preferred its ability to communicate even complex thoughts, reflections. Prof. Dr. Marek Szyryk goes further, because he not only "thinks", but also writes. And this literally, in letters, words, sentences, and not metaphorically in the sense of "painting with light." His Exercises are composed of two parts - an earlier Broken mirror and I have nineteen rivers under my feet. Most often, one photograph placed alone on one page is accompanied by a text on the adjacent page, whereby it is not the author's intention to tell the viewer-reader about the "external" (objective) circumstances of the creation of a particular photograph (although it happens anyway), but to give an account of the world of his own thoughts, feelings, opinions, moods, that is, the "internal" (subjective) world, and the photo is, as it were, a complement to this story, an illustration. Marek Szyryk: I write about photography and about myself, I divide my stories and put them together in a certain way. (...) I interpret photography and the photographer's paradigm in my own way. I look for the indescribable. Words reflecting intuition, urges, impulses that led to pressing the shutter button.