XII Festival of Photography Plein Air September 2-November 25, 2022 Arek Gola-What word you say, you will hearThe program of absolute premieres: Arkadiusz Gola will remind us of a quote from Homer: "What word you utter, such will you hear," and Janusz Musial in "Memoria MMXXII" will attempt to answer the question of what memory is. There is also Mariusz Mykicki's debut "From Near and Far" -...
Julia Stachura: What is your first memory related to photography? Kamila Kobierzynska: I could echo Marcel Proust - we deal with what we lack. When I was a child I liked to look through photographs by pulling them out of drawers and boxes from time to time, but no one ever told me about them - I just looked at the pictures. I remember that one ...
Photography in itself is never the end. Photography captures the one-of-a-kind "Here and Now," because, after all, the second before the photo is taken and the second after the photo is taken, the world is completely different. It does not end, whether it is reflected on paper or already beyond the sight of man. It continues even without our knowledge. That's why photography, especially photography....
A book dedicated to the work of Zbigniew Tomaszczuk was published by the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts already in 2018, but the book reached me only now, a few days ago, so I can write a few words of my complement only four years after the publication of the study. The publication was prepared very carefully and provides a comprehensive overview of the artistic achievements of Professor Tomaszczuk. Very insightful articles...
Photography has always been a tool that allowed man to explore. Over time, as optical devices, including cameras, became more and more advanced, and their possibilities for discovery grew, not only for scientists and researchers, but also for artists who manifested the natural human qualities of curiosity and observation. This made it possible to expand horizons not only in the field of...
One day I opened my eyes wide and saw that the world I knew and co-created was completely destroyed. The values, feelings and beliefs that were most important to me had completely disintegrated. I fell into a deep sleep where nothing made sense. All my life I thought that such situations could happen to anyone but me. I was wrong." When on...
Vernissage on Friday, July 29 at 17:00, exhibition until September 4, 2022 / Klodzko Cultural Center, Art Gallery "pARTer", Pl. Jagiello 1 Photography does not represent what you see but what you imagine... [JL] The presented photographs are the result of creative work in a new unexpected reality. A pandemic reality. Locked in a cage of limitations, I was put to the hard test of understanding....
from July 22 to October 2, 2022 at the Gdansk Gallery of Photography (Green Gate), 24 Dlugi Targ St. The exhibition is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Photo by Anna Kutera, from the series "Morphological Arrangement. Caps", 1975 / National Museum in GdanskThe "Sensitized" exhibition is a presentation of a selection of works created by artists for whom the medium of photography is the most common art tool. Although they use a very diverse...
We received very interesting material, which we found not only beautiful, but also extremely poignant in terms of meaning. The thought illustrated by these photographs provokes reflection, demands a revision of previous views on the beauty of nature and the human body. Here is what the author wrote about her series: Photographing the first wrinkles on the faces of people close to me or the roots of trees in...
Finissage of the doctoral exhibition: 13.07.2022 / 18.00 / SKiBA Performance Hall J. U. ul. Niemcewicza 2, Wrocław The dissertation Granice Czasu. Between photographic and cinematic recording takes up the issue of the methodology of recording time, in the context of the way it is formally recorded in the photographic image and its influence on the final plastic work. To this end, the issue of spatio-temporal capacity is examined....