It's a strange feeling when a man living in the same time as you presents you with the archaeology of your time, your country, your history. I first saw Christoph Grill's work five years ago on a table during a portfolio review in Bratislava. These were photographs taken in the former Soviet Union. Many people photograph there. The post-Soviet reality is for young photographers....
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...
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-scale, impressive photographic projects, he did not fall victim to the "disease of the 20th century," as design thinking in photography is sometimes referred to.Photos for passportOne art student noticed that for some time now artists have not been creating and...