ICC Photography Gallery, Ostrowiec Cultural Brewery, 54 Siennieńska Street, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.
Opening - Friday, November 17, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Tomasz Grzyb is an excellent observer and a master of mood building! He carefully looks around while instinctively following his senses, inviting the viewer into a world of imagination. He skillfully seeks and uses light, which in his photographs becomes a laser pointer of purpose for the viewer.
With it, he usually illuminates geometric forms on which he wants to focus our attention. He perfectly moves between light and shadow, building the mood and bringing out the beauty of the geometric fragment of the landscape captured in the frame, which in the end becomes a work of art. It wraps our senses for a long time remaining in our memory.
The sense of nostalgia that begins to germinate in us is a creative element in the process, initiated by the author the moment he presses the shutter button. Tomasz Grzyb is an experienced and sensitive photographer who uses light and shadow with full awareness to create a magical atmosphere, giving the photographed place a multidimensional meaning.
The author consciously abandoned color in photography, building the mood with black and white. This procedure allows to focus on the structure, geometric form, harmony and the play of light and shadow. It emphasizes the nostalgic dimension of these unusual photographs, giving them a unique character.
Kinga Hendzel - photographer
Tomasz Grzyb (1971) - a Radom resident by birth and residence. Member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers (ZPAF) since 2012. Winner of many awards and honors including IPA International Photography Awards (USA), MIFA Moscow International Foto Awards (Russia), PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris (France), Monochrome Photography Awards (England), Black & White Spider Awards (USA), Internationa Color Awards (USA) and Turkey, India, Egypt, Oman, Serbia, Macedonia, Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark and Poland. Author of several solo exhibitions shown in many places in Poland. He consciously and subconsciously looks for hidden order, geometry and harmony in the world, whether it is landscape photography, architecture or reportage. In his work he tries not to show the world as it is, but as he would like to see it. He uses various techniques to get the result he wants, such as: black and white photography, pinhole photography and registration of infrared and ultraviolet rays, analog medium and large format. In his creative work he is guided by the golden thought of Robert Bresson When photographing, try to show what without you, no one else would see.