Description
Piotr Stasik (1953 - 2008) was born in Poznan. He has been involved in photography since the 1970s when he joined the Poznan Photographic Society in January 1978. From 1987 to 1991 he worked in the studio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan under Professor Stefan Wojnecki. From 1997 to 2001, he taught photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Poznan. For eight years, starting in 1995, he worked as a designer for "Wprost" magazine. He was a member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers since 1995.
Piotr Stasik's work is dominated by two loves: femininity and Poznań. Both photographs are examples of the first theme and date from his pre-computer period, when he used only purely photographic means of expression. He exposed two frames adjacent to each other on film on a single sheet of photographic paper, then toned one of them to sepia color, leaving the other in the "natural" colors of the photographic paper used. By simultaneously leaving parts of the black frame from the medium format negative in the image, he achieved an interesting aesthetic effect. Thanks to this, as well as partial toning, on the one hand he remained faithful to the classical photographic process, revealing the his inclinations to move beyond classical stylistics toward the possibilities offered by digital photography, which was emerging in the 1990s. He gave expression to this in his later works.
