15.06.2023 / at 18.00 / Center for Non-Governmental Organizations in Radom, 15 Rynek Street
The "Gloria Lucis" Foundation for Visual Arts and the FORMATS Collective invite you to an author's meeting with one of Poland's most prominent photographers Tomasz Tomaszewski.
"I raise the camera to my eye and pick out a piece of the world. Intuitively, maybe a little wistfully, but certainly with the conviction that I am not pretending anything, that I am myself. That's when I experience the sound of the shutter being released as an astonishing pleasure and joy, accompanied by the need to remember something significant, surprising and uncommon. The frame chosen in this way becomes a whole world, so to speak, and I discover that it is not only stranger than I imagined, but stranger than I can imagine. For years I tried to explain man to another man with photography. Now I have abandoned these efforts and am showing a set of single photographs that have no ambition to tell a story. Rather, they are reflections and were chosen with the hope that they will lead to reflection although I know that, after all, none of the temporal goals are guaranteed to us. I am trying. I try to catch my world in its attractive moment, privileged and unique constantly feeling that I can't fully achieve what I would like, but at the same time I don't stop wanting what I can't either."
Tomasz Tomaszewski
Tomasz Tomaszewski - Member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers, the Visum Archiv agency in Hamburg, the Image Collection agency in Washington and the American Society of Magazine Photographers. He holds a doctoral degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He is involved in press photography and has published his photographs in both major Polish magazines and major foreign magazines, including: Stern, Paris Match, GEO, New York Times, Time, Fortune, Vogue, Die Zeit, Elle. He has published several author's books: "The Last. Contemporary Polish Jews" and "Searching for America" (text by Malgorzata Niezabitowska), "Polish Gypsies" (text by Jerzy Ficowski), "In the Center", "Unusual Spain", "The atmosphere of kindness is assured", "The World Is Where You Stop" and illustrated with his photographs several collective works. He is the author of many solo exhibitions in the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, Holland, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Poland and Madagascar. He has been a juror in the World PressPhoto competition three times. Winner of Polish and international photography awards. For more than twenty years he has collaborated with National Geographic magazine, where he has published 18. photographic essays. He teaches photography in Poland, the USA, Germany and Italy.