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XPRINT22 - matter of document | exhibitions, meetings, books
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...
Kamil Sleszynski, Charms
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...
Zofia Rydet - Sociological Record 1978-1990 at the Radom Village Museum
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,...
Do you still remember me? PRL in the lens of local press photojournalists on the example of Cieszyn
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...
We share photography. A conversation with the team of RPL&CAK's Photography Department
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...
Amadeus Spruce Cottage
Long-term documentary projects are not an overly common choice among photographers today. There are several reasons for this. The media lives on fast news, an overwhelming number of photos are published on mass social media - where they also capture the attention of viewers for only a fraction of the time. Many modern photographers seduced by the technical ease of recording digital photographs succumb to mass trends, publishing easily digestible images online,...
Michael Konrad - a self-portrait of thought
If I had to answer the question of what photography is, I would answer that creating an image, the basis of which is independent thinking. If someone were to ask me what life is about, I would answer similarly - that life is about independent thinking every minute of it. For several years I have been making self-portraits, my figure has become an indispensable part of my photographs, using...
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