- How would you start living if you found out you had one year to live? - Peter M., a long-time friend of mine, once asked. I care less about how he answered his own question, but I was reminded of this incident when I picked up a book by Krzysztof Slachciak entitled "More likely we are not special," where the author asks the question: are we special?....
Everything that exists has a mystery. All kinds of creative activities, including those related to the visual arts, are an attempt to get closer to what is contained between the lines, or rather between the images, as Michelangelo Antonioni himself once put it in an interview. Namely, to what is unrecorded, unarticulated, unspoken expressis verbis. The more we are able to...
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...
Long-term documentary projects are not an overly common choice among photographers today. There are several reasons for this. The media lives on fast news, an overwhelming number of photos are published on mass social media - where they also capture the attention of viewers for only a fraction of the time. Many modern photographers seduced by the technical ease of recording digital photographs succumb to mass trends, publishing easily digestible images online,...
If I had to answer the question of what photography is, I would answer that creating an image, the basis of which is independent thinking. If someone were to ask me what life is about, I would answer similarly - that life is about independent thinking every minute of it. For several years I have been making self-portraits, my figure has become an indispensable part of my photographs, using...
Many metaphors are used in relation to photography to convey the nature of its ambiguous and intriguing imagery. Some of them refer to its relation to time: photography as embalming time, photography as history, as a record of past time. Others refer to its pictorial relation to the world, to the places pictured, and embrace photography as a window or as a mirror....
The United States of America is - in addition to everything else - also the realm of photography. As early as 1888, Georges Eastman launched a camera capable of taking 100 photographs. From that moment, photography began its massive career as a national hobby, and on this basis the Kodak company built its empire. To be fair, it must be added that at the same time Americans...
I am, I exist, I live. Three words, none of which brings us closer to the mystery of our existence. I and my body, the world and my reality in it. The eternal lessons of darkness*. The body is the visual evidence of our being, the bridge between the spiritual interior and the external material world. Uniquely, it happens to a person to establish a thread of communication with the individual - other - interior....
On January 21, 2022, the exhibition "Paper Landscapes," featuring photographs, installations and objects by Kamil Myszkowski, opened at the Sielecki Castle Art Center in Sosnowiec. The exhibition was on display until April 16, 2022. The starting point for the exhibition "Paper Landscapes" is a series of photographs I have been implementing successively since 2018, in which I refer to classical photography....
Writing that Wojciech Zawadzki was a great photographer is the same truism as writing that a great poet was, for example, a certain Slovakian. This everyone knows. Like any "seriousness," Wojciech Zawadzki continues to have an impact even after his death, which came for him in 2017. Less than five years later, or more precisely, from February 8 to March 18, 2022, in the extraordinary...