Arthur is an ultra-subjective and uncompromising photographer; he recognizes only the traditional technique, i.e. analog, personal processing of the negative and the print. Each copy is made with his heart and mind, and the goal of his photographic activity is to express the inner self, what is inside him and worthy of being revealed. It doesn't matter where he photographs, what matters is how and that he is the one with total power....
I look at the shadow cast by the tree. The white man's civilization begins with a "tree of life," and each individual is entitled to a pair of planks at the end of his life. Without wood, there would have been no Noah's Ark or Christopher Columbus. Nor would there likely have been a kola or a cross. Without the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," there would have been no original sin, and thus no trees....
It is very often the case that when looking at such photographs, a person cannot in any way deny the claim that photography is a certain form of mourning the world.Lukasz Romanowski, Mr. JasiekNowadays we can see very clearly with what tremendous speed everything we knew, our parents knew, our grandparents knew, is simply disappearing. Photography has always had the task of capturing, stopping...
Looking at the photographs Maciej Sztorc sent to us, my first thought was to remember a saying by Andrzej Jerzy Lech: "the most important thing for your camera is what is 15 meters away from it."The meaning, and therefore also the implications of this phrase, are so capacious and extensive that developing it one could write many a dissertation. One...
It is said that a photographer should always have a camera with him, but in reality is this always the case, has it always been so? Is it only the professional photojournalist on his shoulder who inseparably carries a bag in which he carries a tool for capturing images of life? A full-time photographer can often enter where an ordinary Kowalski can no longer, but even in this case....
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'm in it at the same time, and when I'm left alone with it, being like a medium, I can sense a gentle vibration, it's emptiness.Marek Noniewicz, Skrzetusko skwerko przy Zespoół Szkół Budowlanych, 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 1A photograph does not represent what you see but what you imagine [JL].The photographs on display 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....
