Many Polish photographers after World War II until now have been trying to tackle one of the most difficult subjects of Polish reality - Silesia. How to present its synthetic vision, and above all the people and their problems, as well as the degraded environment and architecture? Such an attempt was also made by Jerzy Wierzbicki, who had already faced the subject of...
Come here, Youth, come! Behold, a new morning rises, A picture of truth hitherto unknown, Doubt and clouds of reason, Disputes for the crowd's delight - Behold, they have dispelled. Madness is a dark forest, It's a labyrinth of madly tangled roots. How many have fallen there! What they should care for, They do not know; In darkness for bones they stumble The dead in this wilderness. I...
This article had a chance to go down in the history of "Fotografia Quarterly" as interesting and beautiful, but it passed only as interesting. Its protagonist, Tomasz Gudzowaty, sent a dozen of his beautiful photographs to the editorial office, but at the same time asked for the text of the article, which was written by Renata Gluza, then a journalist for the "Press" monthly. And it began... - You'd better not show him the article before....