Travelling through the Białowieża Forest – a natural border between the two nations – at the cusp of a political revolution, Orpik sought to understand the Belarusian community
Tag: Poland
The Polish photographer’s work is often rooted in the political and social landscape of her home country
The Polish photographer looks at the contradictions of life in the former Eastern Bloc, before…
26 April 2022
Travelling through nine countries, Wilton exposes scars on the environment, and the consequences for those who live near mines and coal plants
Children are placed in bootcamp settings, and trained in skills such as survival, self-defense, and shooting. Here, Kepesz introduces us to life on campus
A digital platform, active Instagram feed and printed newspaper, the APP pairs photography with bold design to keep the cause on the agenda
The new monograph is a collection of images taken between Germany and Poland, creating an atmosphere of uncertainty that characterises the future of this troubled nation.
If her images appear unsettling, that’s our own hang-ups, says Aneta Bartos, who photographed herself with her ageing father
Born in 1991, Polish photographer Karol Palka is currently working on a PhD at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, which he hopes to finish in 2021. His series Edifice documents communist-era buildings in Poland and neighbouring Eastern Bloc countries. It includes shots of the Polana Hotel, once owned by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and the former office building for the management of the Nowa Huta Steelworks, which was once visited by Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro.
Born in Poland, educated in Switzerland, resident in Caracas, Venezuela from 1975-83, and now living in Paris, Gabriela Morawetz is a truly global citizen and artist, who has exhibited in galleries and museums across North and South America and Europe, including the Chicago Cultural Center, the Gallery of Modern Art in Lodz, Poland, The Recanaty Foundation Museum in Israel, and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Caracas.
Even so, she creates her own worlds in her photography, microcosms in which most of the elements are literally made by her. Her latest show, Unwägbarkeiten / Imponderables, features a series of images using painting, canvas, glass, metal, and reflections, drawing on her background in painting, sculpture, and engraving, which she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow before moving into photography.