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....
The Office of Art Exhibitions in Jelenia Gora cordially invites you to participate in the next edition of the photography exhibition , "Contacts". Photography can be submitted until the end of December 2022! The opening of the exhibition ,,Contacts. On the Road/ Contacts. In Transit" is scheduled for April 2023 CONTACTS is to some extent a return to the sources, but at the same time is an example of the search for contemporary form in photography, for which...
The environmental disaster on the Oder River continues for another month. The mass death of animals and the destruction of the river's ecosystem prompt questions about both the role of wildlife for humans and the effectiveness of public policies to protect the environment. With the support of the European Climate Foundation, the Sputnik Photos collective is carrying out a project related to the situation on the Oder River. Rafał Milach, Justyna Streichsbier, Michal...
vernissage 08.10.2022 5.30 pm Exhibition 08.10.2022 - 06.11.2022 / Mosina Art Gallery; 1 Niezłomnych St., 62-050 Mosina The SAR-CoV-2 pandemic is responsible for more than 3 million deaths worldwide. Its effects are long-term, it's hard to know exactly what period we'll be facing them. No one fully knows or can predict it. I myself have been...
INTERNAL LANDSCAPES As Jolanta Brach-Czaina wrote: "The basis of our existence is everyday life. And since we experience the fact of existence as extremely important, so we are overwhelmed with astonishment whenever we realize that it passes in trifles. Everyday life, which is the existential background of extraordinary events that we expect - often in vain - can thus determine everything. It has a petty dimension. Frequency is high. It is...
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,...
On the one hand, they built a multicinema On the other hand, they are expanding the cemetery ...
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 am in it at the same time, and when I am left alone with it, being like a medium, I sense a gentle vibration, it is emptiness. Marek Noniewicz, Skrzetusko square by the Construction School Complex, Bydgoszcz, 2004 (now altered) "Machines....
"Boxing is not chess - here you have to think". - this golden thought of Jerzy Kulej, Olympic boxing champion from many years ago, has gone down in history not only of funny sayings of athletes. It was so surprising and "improbable" that it prompted... thinking, which, however, does not have to be boxing. Michal Lewandowski is a chess player, but also a photographer with a love of nature, who, with the help of...
The photographic image is not something invented, but something found ...