I knock on the door of the stone. - It's me, let me in. (...) - I don't have a door - says the stone - W. Szymborska,...
The author of the photographs wrote thus: The primary function of my photographs is to be more in a given place. The secondary is to show others how I see a place with the hope that someone will find such a view interesting, or similar to their own. The decision to publish photos from Ponidzie is not an easy one, as there are probably hundreds of photos taken there every day, many of which...
Even an empty landscape is full of vague presences for me, actually a landscape cannot be empty, it always takes form. When I face the space, I am in it at the same time, and when I am left alone with it, being like a medium, I sense a gentle vibration, it is emptiness. Marek Noniewicz, Skrzetusko square by the Construction School Complex, Bydgoszcz, 2004 (now altered) "Machines....
Marika Kuzmicz: Margaret, let's talk about your life so far and your relationship with art, which started when you were a child. You had extraordinary parents. Can you tell at least a piece of their story and thus about your first contacts with art? Malgorzata Potocka: I had a rather luxurious situation - in the sense that I didn't face incomprehension. When...
Vernissage on Friday, July 29 at 17:00, exhibition until September 4, 2022 / Klodzko Cultural Center, Art Gallery "pARTer", Pl. Jagiello 1 Photography does not represent what you see but what you imagine... [JL] The presented photographs are the result of creative work in a new unexpected reality. A pandemic reality. Locked in a cage of limitations, I was put to the hard test of understanding....
Opening on Monday, July 11 at 17:00, exhibition until August 31, 2022 / Zamosc City Hall Photo Gallery, Rynek Wielki 13 Łódź 1966 "f/5.6" These photos will be a discovery - many of them are published for the first time. Black and white, taken with Leica, with a 50mm lens. Mostly with an aperture of 5.6 (hence the title of the album and exhibition). Lodz, 1960s....
I tell the story of silence through photography. The inspiration is John Cage's piece 4'33" - its score could be white sheets of paper. Silence in music, which has its own weight and volume, is important because it creates space for emotions to resound. Non-acoustic silence, the silence of the inner landscape, as a state of consciousness, is the one that directs us towards ourselves. The silence of the silent cosmos, the harmony of the spheres....
Vernissage on Friday, July 1, at 17:00, exhibition until August 7, 2022 / Sleńdzinski Gallery - Municipal Institution of Culture, 5 Victoria Street, Bialystok More than 11 thousand negatives. One-of-a-kind photographic documentation of Manhattan from 1982-1984. Unique in the world both in terms of volume, but primarily thanks to the person of the author. Andrzej Strumillo, greedily...
My first feeling after seeing some of the photographs sent by Maciej Bonk to the Youth Portfolio was: I want more! I immediately contacted the author with a request to send more photos, He sent, and thus our eyes can enjoy longer. Although the author is a young man, looking at his photographs I had the impression that his fascination with "nature" in the broadest sense, also...
Much more can probably be said on the subject by art historians or cultural scholars involved in the preservation and study of the photographic archives left behind by photojournalists employed until 1989 in the editorial offices of local weekly newspapers, covering mainly medium-sized cities and their adjacent regions, since the local so-called county press (in today's form of municipalities and...