December 2, 2022, at 11 a.m. at MuFo Rakowicka, 22A Rakowicka St., Krakow Conference with the participation of exhibition curators Łukasz Gorczyca and Adam Mazur, as well as MuFo Director Marek Świca and Deputy Director Adrianna Gębala-Pietras. A press conference on the temporary exhibition "Fotografika. Artistic Photography in Poland 1927- 1978" dedicated to the beginnings of artistic photography in Poland.
Polish photography chronically suffers from a lack of figures, if not legendary, then at least of great stature. One of the few shrouded in an aura of contemporary authority is Krzysztof Miller. Born in 1962, Miller, like many of his contemporaries, not only participated in the events of martial law, but also actively began to convulse the decline of communist Poland with photography. In the second half of the 1980s, he approached the circle of...
"This is actually a series about death," declares Wojtek Wilczyk when asked about the subject of his latest series Life After Life. If the photographs of parts or whole car bodies turned into roadside advertisements, flowerbeds and decorations at the end of their life encourage us to contemplate the passing of time and the transience of existence, they do so in an emotionally neutral way. The documentation created by Wilczyk...