WSZYSTKO MOŻE BYĆ WSZYSTKIM Motywacja, która posłużyła do wykonania prezentowanych poniżej zdjęć, dalece różni się od tej, jakiej zwykle używam w swojej pracy. Najczęściej myślę bowiem o tym, aby fotografia czemuś służyła, aby opowiadała historię, próbowała tłumaczyć człowieka drugiemu człowiekowi. Tym razem starałem się wykorzystać jedynie zdziwienie, czysty zachwyt nad światem, czasami radość i rozbawienie, zażenowanie, ale też i niepokój, wszystko, tylko nie chęć opowiedzenia historii. Okazało się to dla mnie niespodziewanie trudnym wyzwaniem, którego ...
Czytaj dalejPolish highlanders, 2015 Their attitude to nature resembles the relationship between the leaf and the tree. Ultimate harmony and ultimate dependence. Highlanders believe that they had been created by the mountains, which forged their identity. They live for them, they live on them. This is a little appreciated phenomenon of contemporary Europe. Current trends promote uniformity. We adapt ourselves to others, convinced that after all, we are all the same. It ...
Czytaj dalejLamalera, a fishing village on the outskirts of civilization - island of Levaeba, Indonesia. Invariably, whales have been fishing here for over 600 years. Their meat serves as a community food, which has more than 3,000 people today. Founded by Dutch missionaries 6 centuries ago Lamalera, remains the only Catholic village on the island, which in its entirety, as well as the greater part of Indonesia is a Muslim.
Czytaj dalejKairouan, Tunisia It is the 4th most important Muslim city after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem, with the holy Mosque of Aqba situated in the center of the city. Kairouan is a UNESCO World Heritage site attracting a large number of international tourists. The Arabs around 670 founded the city in the period of Caliph Mu’awiya (reigned 661-680). It became an important center for Sunni Islamic scholarship and Quranic learning. It is also ...
Czytaj dalejElmina is a town situated on a south-facing bay on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Ghana, and the first European ( Portuguese) settlement in the West Africa. The location of Elmina made it a significant site for provisioning ships headed south towards the Cape of Good Hope on their way to India. Today with a population of 33.000 people Elmina still remains as a fishing town. Children are important part of ...
Czytaj dalejJava, Indonesia I travelled to Java in Indonesia to document sugar production there. I was one of 6 photographers who were commissioned by the Dutch organization Noorderlicht to produce "The Sweet and Sour Story of Sugar". The project examines globalization by looking at the sugar industry in the Netherlands and its former colonies. It was like taking a trip into the past. I found myself surrounded by steam machinery and archaic ...
Czytaj dalejOVERWHELMED BY THE ATMOSPHERE OF KINDNESS I studied this land from the photos taken by my respectable friends who fell in love with the Podlaskie voivodship in Poland. When I arrived here in winter, at the beginning of 2011, these pictures, kept in my memory, proved true when confronted with reality. I was enchanted with the beauty of the landscape, but then, its splendor didn’t surprise me. So I thought that much ...
Czytaj dalejHADES. Upper Silesia, Poland This series of photographs was taken from March until August 2009. It was my intention to pay homage to people performing hard manual labor. The workers. I chose the Upper Silesia where the work ethos, traditions and related customs seemed to be most alive, apparent and colorful. Poland is changing fast and many of my photographs depict tasks, places and objects which are becoming the thing of the ...
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