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This is a part of the project called "not so insta stories". The whole cycle consists of over 80 cyanotypes. I used an Instagram diary as a starting point, where I had been adding mobile photos on regular basis for a year. The idea behind was to question an Instagram aesthetics (and commonly presented topics) and manifest that digital stories can continue their existence in a physical form, in such a classical medium as cyanotype.

At the center of my artistic activities is a human being - their condition, relationships with other people, with themself, with a place. These are important topics from my perspective - an LGBT+ person living in a constantly changing and difficult Poland.

Mariusz Bonna was born in 1977 in Gdańsk, Poland. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He got diploma with rector's distinction in the graphic arts studio. Currently, a PhD student at this academy. He also studied architecture and multimedia design.

The center of his artistic interests is man, his existence and condition. He talks about it, combining the digital and analog worlds (traditional photographic and graphic techniques). The medium he uses most often is photography. Recently, he has been focusing on exploring the possibilities of cyanotype and Polaroid.