Writing that Wojciech Zawadzki was a great photographer is the same truism as writing that a great poet was, for example, a certain Slovakian. This everyone knows. Like any "seriousness," Wojciech Zawadzki continues to have an impact even after his death, which came for him in 2017. Less than five years later, or more precisely, from February 8 to March 18, 2022, in the extraordinary...
Danish writer Peter Hoeg wrote that any room serving some form of community abandoned becomes unreal... Kiljan Halldorsson - I am an amateur photographer living in Reykyawik. I started my photographic career 20 years ago, mainly focusing on black and white photography. During the last decade, I have focused my photography on abandoned farms and other abandoned dilapidated buildings - so for...
Communist Poland is associated with gray: gray people in a gray landscape. Gray concrete facades, advertising signs in dull colors, no lights on the streets, monochromatic clothing made of poor-quality materials, ugly paper packaging. This atmosphere is documented - already in the new reality - in Nicholas Winter's (b. 1973) sepia Polaroids from the series "New Wilanów" (2009). Poland after 1989...