With photography it's a bit like witchcraft: the darker it gets, the closer it gets to other worlds. And since darkness is not conducive to color, shamans like to resort to forms of existence at the edges of perception. From the dawn of time, photography has had something of a shamanic ritual about it, both in the technological aspect (darkroom) and the ritual that accompanied it for many years....
Danish writer Peter Hoeg wrote that any room serving some form of community abandoned becomes unreal... Kiljan Halldorsson - I am an amateur photographer living in Reykyawik. I started my photographic career 20 years ago, mainly focusing on black and white photography. During the last decade, I have focused my photography on abandoned farms and other abandoned dilapidated buildings - so for...
Nature has generously endowed the world with coils. Many kinds of reptiles or crustaceans boast the ability to coil their bodies, but other animals also make use of this shape - if only during sleep. What we observe in some species externally is much more common under the skin: nerve ganglia, brain ganglia, etc., to end up in the fetus, which until birth....
Many Polish photographers after World War II until now have been trying to tackle one of the most difficult subjects of Polish reality - Silesia. How to present its synthetic vision, and above all the people and their problems, as well as the degraded environment and architecture? Such an attempt was also made by Jerzy Wierzbicki, who had already faced the subject of...
This article had a chance to go down in the history of "Fotografia Quarterly" as interesting and beautiful, but it passed only as interesting. Its protagonist, Tomasz Gudzowaty, sent a dozen of his beautiful photographs to the editorial office, but at the same time asked for the text of the article, which was written by Renata Gluza, then a journalist for the "Press" monthly. And it began... - You'd better not show him the article before....
When you look at the photograph, think for a moment that perhaps she is gazing at you too. It's such a perfect meeting of gazes. All photographs are created in space, on a small planet, on the edge of our galaxy. The human photographer is a humble part of the great process of creating the cosmos, spanning billions of years. Links and relationships occur everywhere, we are made of the same...
Waldemar Sliwczynski is known for his affection for photography, mainly through his self-published "Fotografia Quarterly". In fact, we met at the birth of the magazine, in the creation of which I decided to join, and this joint adventure continues to this day. Sliwczynski is a rare photography enthusiast who took the risk - including financial - of creating an ambitious magazine for connoisseurs....
Alexander Chekemynev, a photojournalist "of flesh and blood," has made a breakthrough into the canon of Ukrainian "high" photography. At the same time, it is worth noting that, as the author of several large, impressive photographic projects, he did not fall victim to the "disease of the 20th century," as design thinking in photography is sometimes referred to. Passport photosOne art student noted that for some time now artists have not been creating, a...