Portrait 2nd place winner

Project called „Beyond Time” contains portraits of my loved ones, taken with luksography technique. When I had invited them to acting together, I have wanted them to find their own individual, safe room, where they could open to their inner colours, and next, leave marks of these colours on photographs.

I'm photographer from Warsaw,Poland.I remain committed to the black and white analogue photography. Due to making it, I can feel direct contact with photographic matter, and - from the beginning to the end - be present in process of composing my photographs. I love working in darkroom, having contact with paper and chemistry, where time stops over and external world doesn’t exist.

I especially find myself in luxography technique, that has become my personal way of photographic express, way to express myself.

I like luxography technique, because it leaves me room to imagination and experiments, is unexpected and astonishing. From the other hand, that technique lets me make only one unique print, so is very demanding and teaches me mindfulness, patience and concentrating.

Photography gives me a huge sense of freedom, lets my mind stop beyond time and space, feel sense of being at home. It lets me meet something universal, I can communicate with the world without cultural and other differences. By the simply way: heart-heart.