I open the hotel door and the first thing that hits me is the solitude of the colors. Then there is silence, in which light subtly walks. It attracts my bewildered gaze, leads me discreetly, invites me to explore a world unknown to me. I turn the page, as if opening another door of another world written in light and silent colors. The more I discover, the faster I disappear; I disappear as a passive observer, as a human being,....
Vernissage on Friday, July 1, at 17:00, exhibition until August 7, 2022 / Sleńdzinski Gallery - Municipal Institution of Culture, 5 Victoria Street, Bialystok More than 11 thousand negatives. One-of-a-kind photographic documentation of Manhattan from 1982-1984. Unique in the world both in terms of volume, but primarily thanks to the person of the author. Andrzej Strumillo, greedily...
8 JUL at 16:00 - 9 JUL at 21:00 XPRINT22 matter of document We would like to invite you to the next edition of XPRINT. This time we will focus on the theme of "documentary matter". Firstly, we will present different ways of making and using documentary photography, and secondly, we will analyze creative attitudes and various approaches to recording the reality around us. Ahead of us will be exhibitions, meetings around...
vernissage and book launch / Friday, July 1, 2022 / 6:30 pm / September Market Mox, Longe, Tarde - from curator Karol Szymkowiak DECEMBER 2021 The only effective protection against the "black death" when it claimed millions of victims in 14th-century Europe was escape. This prescription, dating back to the time of Hippocrates, found its expression in the then-popular Latin...
Various sets of stories, often very personal, exploring the history of one's own family, come to our box marked "Youth Portfolio." One such story was sent by Kamil Sleszynski. The story and the accompanying photographs - archival and contemporary, by the author - are moving. It turns out that the horrors of the communist period suffered by Sleszynski's ancestors can still have an impact. The author wonders whether the traumas...
Vernissage - June 24 at 17:00 to the granary of Wilkow on the grounds of the Radom Village Museum "Sociological Record" The photographer began creating her magnum opus: "Sociological Record" from 1978 (she was 67 at the time), a series with no equivalent in Polish photography, a gigantic portrait of a human family in the interior. She continued it until the end of her photographic activity everywhere,...
- How would you start living if you found out you had one year to live? - Peter M., a long-time friend of mine, once asked. I care less about how he answered his own question, but I was reminded of this incident when I picked up a book by Krzysztof Slachciak entitled "More likely we are not special," where the author asks the question: are we special?....
Everything that exists has a mystery. All kinds of creative activities, including those related to the visual arts, are an attempt to get closer to what is contained between the lines, or rather between the images, as Michelangelo Antonioni himself once put it in an interview. Namely, to what is unrecorded, unarticulated, unspoken expressis verbis. The more we are able to...
Much more can probably be said on the subject by art historians or cultural scholars involved in the preservation and study of the photographic archives left behind by photojournalists employed until 1989 in the editorial offices of local weekly newspapers, covering mainly medium-sized cities and their adjacent regions, since the local so-called county press (in today's form of municipalities and...
Julia Stachura: We are in the Provincial Public Library and Center for Cultural Animation in Poznan. At first glance, I would not associate this place with photography, and as it turns out, it plays a special role here. Tell us something about yourself, what is your artistic background and what paths led you to the photography department? Matthew Kiszka: I studied photography at the...