Looking at the photographs Maciej Sztorc sent to us, my first thought was to remember a saying by Andrzej Jerzy Lech: "the most important thing for your camera is what is 15 meters away from it."The meaning, and therefore also the implications of this phrase, are so capacious and extensive that developing it one could write many a dissertation. One...
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,...
The author of the photographs wrote thus: The primary function of my photographs is to be more in a given place. The secondary is to show others how I see a place with the hope that someone will find such a view interesting, or similar to their own.The decision to publish photos from Ponidzie is not an easy one, as there are probably hundreds of photos taken there every day, many of which...
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'm in it at the same time, and when I'm left alone with it, being like a medium, I can sense a gentle vibration, it's emptiness.Marek Noniewicz, Skrzetusko skwerko przy Zespoół Szkół Budowlanych, Bydgoszcz, 2004 (now altered)"Machines ...
There is probably no photographer who has not taken a self-portrait. The most famous among the pioneers of the invention of photography was certainly Hippolyte Bayard, who as early as 1840, photographing himself as a "suicide," expressed his great regret to the whole world that it was not to him that the palm of precedence in the invention of photography was awarded, but to some Daguerre or Talbot.Also, later artists very...
Rafal Swosinski is one of those photographers who, instead of "philosophizing", simply prefer to photograph. And that he is not lacking in talent, beautiful photographs come out....We are not interested today in the entire oeuvre of this author (there will be time for that...), but only in a certain episode in his photography, namely the photos taken by him in Górka Klasztorna near Lobżenica....
Opening on Monday, July 11 at 17:00, exhibition until August 31, 2022 / Zamosc City Hall Photo Gallery, Rynek Wielki 13Łódź 1966"f/5,6"These photos will be a discovery - many of them are published for the first time. Black and white, taken with Leica, with a 50mm lens. Mostly with an aperture of 5.6 (hence the title of the album and exhibition). Lodz, 1960s....
My first feeling after seeing some of the photographs sent by Maciej Bonk to the Youth Portfolio was: I want more! I immediately contacted the author with a request to send more photos, He sent and so our eyes can enjoy longer.Although the author is a young man, looking at his photographs I had the impression that his fascination with "nature" in the broadest sense, also...
The United States of America is - in addition to everything else - also the realm of photography. As early as 1888, Georges Eastman launched a camera capable of taking 100 photographs. From that moment, photography began its massive career as a national hobby, and on this basis Kodak company built its empire.To be fair, it must be added that at the same time Americans...
On January 21, 2022, the exhibition "Paper Landscapes," featuring photographs, installations and objects by Kamil Myszkowski, opened at the Sielecki Castle Art Center in Sosnowiec. The exhibition was on display until April 16, 2022.The starting point for the exhibition "Paper Landscapes" is a series of photographs I have been implementing successively since 2018, in which I refer to classical photography....
