I am, I exist, I live. Three words, none of which brings us closer to the mystery of our existence. I and my body, the world and my reality in it. The eternal lessons of darkness*. The body is the visual evidence of our being, the bridge between the spiritual interior and the external material world. Uniquely, it happens to a person to establish a thread of communication with the individual - other - interior....
When photographing the places that inspire him, Maciej Kuszela also tries to emphasize the personal nature of this inspiration. Therefore, the final form of these images is usually the result of various additional manipulations, which may be surprising when juxtaposed with the fact that the term "photojournalist" appears so often in the author's biography. However, it is understandable that when a photograph is created out of a purely personal need, it...
The work of Bronislaw Schlabs is primarily associated with the photographic avant-garde of the late 1950s, with the innovative photography exhibition organized together with Jerzy Lewczynski and Zdzislaw Beksinski, which went down in history under the name "Antiphotography", and with abstract photographic compositions made without a camera - "Photograms". Meanwhile, virtually unknown are the photographs that Schlabs created before the period of photographic abstractions,...