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The 2016 photo won an honorable mention in the Portrait category of the VIVA Photo Awards. As the author writes: The photo shows a person residing in a nursing home, being on her final journey. She passed away.
Piotr Kosinski - photographer, a ward of the AVALON Foundation, which supports people with disabilities. His illness makes it difficult for him to function on a daily basis and to enter the open job market as a professional photographer. His dream is to work in this profession, but for now he is working part-time as a support worker at the Caritas Vocational Activity Facility. You can support him in various ways, including donating 1.5% in tax by filling out your PIT. All opportunities to support can be found at the following link: https://www.fundacjaavalon.pl/nasi_beneficjenci/piotr_kosinski_6794/ You can also buy any of his photos listed as charity auctions on Allegro.
Piotr Kosinski: - Photography is my passion, and even more - it's a love of taking pictures! My interest dates back to 1998, but I got more seriously into photography during my five-year studies at the School of Art and Design in Lodz and after graduation. They have developed me to take better pictures. I take them mostly non-commercially, but always out of an inner need and desire to create something of value, rather than just being a consumer. With a lack of artistic talent, I reached for the camera so that it would draw what I point to. What is valuable to me, first and foremost, is photographing people and capturing what is important to them, namely themselves and their loved ones. Maybe we are all constantly trying to stop time, which flows in its span between life and death.
Only photography can stop time. Only photography has the ability to overcome the specter of death, and this is my ongoing struggle with death and passing. 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. Zofia Rydet on her work (1993)
