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Tereza Vlčková creates smooth cinematography on the borderline between java and dream. The "Two" series is reminiscent of Kubric's "The Shining," and in "Mirrors Inside" we see some kind of absurd performance with a precisely duplicated single character in a claustrophobic theater space. In Asger Carlsen's black-and-white photographs, we witness some sensational event like Weegee's, only there is something different and undefined in these situations, uncanny, but open to our interpretations. Iwo Rutkiewicz's "All the things I have" series is about the things one has and grows into. For example, there are transparent, green or borrowed collections. Afterwards, we talk with Wojtek Wilczyk about the religiosity of Poles and his photos from the album "Calvary." Rafal Swosinski photographed Górka Klasztorna instead of philosophizing, we showed them as an example of a different approach to photographing religious ceremonies than Wilczyk's. We also talk to Charles Fréger about portraying contemporary "tribes." By Andrzej Polakowski, we show a series of photographs of Polish Roma in 1967, at the time when they were forcibly settled by prohibiting the movement of tabors. We show Luci Ganieva's series "The West of Fame" - photos of actors and actresses from a retirement home who live out their days there remembering the fame of their youth, and "Iron Mules," which shows people with their motorcycles, which have replaced horses. "Cities and Gardens" is a series of photographs by photojournalist Maciej Kuszela, which, however, through various photographic techniques and manipulation in processing, does not fully reflect the reality found. In "Portfolio of the Young" we are with a pinhole camera among animals with Paul Olearka in the series nomen omen "Animals." Adam Mazur writes about the exhibition "Unobvious 2009" (a DVD of it is also included in the issue). Daria Kolacka writes about Russian photography from 1991-2010 based on an exhibition held in Paris at the time and Krzysztof Jurecki writes about the exhibition "Archetype of Photography: Joachim Froese, Grzegorz Przyborek, Ken Matsubara" from the then CCA Laznia in Gdansk. There's a report on the 2nd International Festival of Youth Photography in Yaroslavl, Andreas Feininger's exhibition at the ICC in Krakow, and "Exposed: Voyerism, Surveillance and the Camera" at London's Tata Midern. "Photographers' Network 2010" - is a collection of photographs started by Thomas Kellner, who every year invites photographers he has met before to build it. SETSE (Seeing Europe Through Stranger's Eyes) is a project of the European Photographers' Network, which then realized the theme "Family and Food in Europe." There is also material on "Poland," an exclusive illustrated magazine sent around the world in five languages since the mid-1950s, and of course the content placed in it was about our country. Slawomir Tobis reflects on the curses, or perhaps blessings, of digital prints + publication reviews
Artists of the issue: Tereza Vlčková, Iwo Rutkiewicz, Wojtek Wilczyk, Rafał Swosiński, Charles Fréger, Andrzej Polakowski, Lucia Ganieva, Maciej Kuszela, Paweł Olearka,
Authors of the texts: Vladimír Birgus, Kuba Ryniewicz, Marika Zamojska, Waldemar Sliwczynski, Katarzyna Majak, Bogdan Konopka, Irina Chmyrieva, Adam Sobota and Bożena Anna Kuszela, Adam Mazur, Daria Kolacka, Krzysztof Jurecki, Wojciech Wilczyk, Zuzanna Sokolowska, Witold Kanicki, Marianna Michalowska, Grzegorz Klatka, Aleksandra Sliwczynska-Kupidura, Slawomir Tobis