We begin taking orders for the new issue of our "Quarterly". As usual, the pre-order (until July 31 this year) is cheaper - 40 PLN + shipping costs, from August 1 the price will increase to 46 PLN. KF 42 will be published in the first half of August. Each order of "KF 42" in the pre-sale will be accompanied by a free issue of "Review", the periodical of the School of Photography....
On June 9 Jedrzej Paszak decided to pass away on his own terms. Jędrek's secular funeral (that's how his friends and acquaintances referred to him) took place on Wednesday, June 14 in Wągrowiec. Gathered at the grave were those closest to him from his childhood and Wągrowiec youth, friends from the photography collectives "Świetlica" and "Ciemnica", acquaintances, there were also people with whom he worked and collaborated....
15.06.2023 / 18.00 / Center for Non-Governmental Organizations in Radom, 15 Rynek Street The Foundation for Visual Arts "Gloria Lucis" and the FORMATS Collective invite you to an author's meeting with one of the most outstanding Polish photographers Tomasz Tomaszewski. "I raise the camera to my eye and pick out a fragment of the world. Intuitively, maybe a bit reasonably, but certainly with the conviction that nothing...
07.06.2023 / 18.00 / ZPAF Gallery of Photography, 4 Św. Marcina St., Wrocław "Consciousness is born through the organism's ability to perceive sensations arising from bodily activity." "The entire structure of consciousness with its mechanisms for controlling behavior is rooted in the unconscious bodily processes that sustain the functioning of the living organism." Alexander Lowen, Voice of the Body The body is an independent entity, capable of...
Fotofestiwal was established in 2001. It was one of the first photographic events in Poland: a small, spontaneous initiative of sociology students. Today, it's an international event with more than 20,000 visitors each year. The festival takes place in Lodz - a city with a remarkable industrial history, which has inspired the organizers from the beginning. Exhibitions are shown in post-industrial spaces: the center of...
30.06 - 08.10.2023 / vernissage at 7:00 pm / BWA Wrocław Main Gallery, 105 Pilsudski St. (1st floor) The exhibitions about the revolutions of matter - The Afterlife and The Extraction - are two independent narratives from Silesia, the historical land where Anna Orlowska and Michal Luczak live. The artist and the artist work mainly in the medium of photography. The double exhibition at the largest gallery...
Limestone as a building material has been used for centuries and in various regions of the country. For me, buildings and structures made of limestone look most beautiful in the area of the Krakow-Czestochowa Jurassic Highland, blending into the landscape of limestone rocks, immersed in Jurassic green, contrasting with the colors of autumn, wrapped in the white of winter. The architecture harmonizes with its surroundings and complements the natural landscape. Medieval fortresses,...
02.06.2023 / 18:00 / exhibition until 27.06.2023 / B&B Gallery of Photography, Włókniarzy Miejski Dom Kultury, 12 1 Maja St., Bielsko-Biała The cycles of Andrzej Grudnia presented at the exhibition build a multi-threaded story constructed exclusively from self-portraits. This common denominator sets the exhibition in the area of deeply subjective and emotional photography. This applies both to the original motivation for the creation of the works, as well as to the...
The opening of Franciszek Kupczyk's exhibition took place on May 26 at the CKiS Wieża Ciśnień Gallery as part of the 3rd Konin Photography Festival FOCUS NAD WARTA. The photographs presented on that day are a continuation of the already twenty-year-long Kameduli project, initiated with the publication of an album entitled Kameduli in the Service of God and People and the 2003 exhibition Ora et Labora. The motivation for my photographs...
Taking self-portraits is like crossing a door, and arriving at a safe, new place1 Large-format photographs of young women* hang on a sea-colored stone wall. The wrinkles on the stones become fleshy, and contrasting with the dark color of the surroundings, the naked bodies seem like shell-less mollusks cast ashore. Hardness and softness, strength and delicacy, independence....