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 ...
Pawel Zak is one of those photographers who, with incredible lightness, can use what the old masters used to call "the light of the image." The repeatedly shown and awarded series of his photos entitled "Stories" is an eloquent example of great visual culture in an artist whose works completely belong to the latest currents in contemporary photography. "Stories" is, in my opinion, a multi-layered ...
"White and Red" is a long-term social project of documentary filmmaker Marek Lapis, who uses the medium of photography to describe how the colors white and red function in the consciousness of society. In times of transformation and turbulent contemporary social and political changes, these colors take on special significance in public space. The photos that make up the publication "White and Red" come from about 200 trips throughout...
Marika Kuzmicz: Margaret, let's talk about your life so far and your relationship with art, which started when you were a child. You had extraordinary parents. Can you tell at least a piece of their story and thus about your first contacts with art? Malgorzata Potocka: I had a rather luxurious situation - in the sense that I didn't face incomprehension. When...
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 ...