The project is a collection of photographs taken while traveling at different times and moments. The images are linked by anxiety, decay, death and life. The resulting visual narrative is meant to tell the story of existence in the shadow of climate change and constant decay.
Author's statement on the project:
Modern reality is made of decomposed organisms. It is a sum of forgotten moments, plants, animals, people. It is a complex maze of meanings, navigating through which instills uncertainty and fear. Increasing climate change, as a direct human legacy, makes us, as humans, responsible for the eventual destruction of our planet's existential heritage. The natural urge to learn about it is connected in this context with a sense of guilt, confronting our origins and the history of destruction of our ancestors. Observing the reality around me, I focus my gaze on the cycle of life and garbage. In the resulting visual story, individual existences ask questions about their place in a reality that, through its unguessed meaning, inspires fear.
amateur category
I saw the human shape in dark soil (Series)
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AUTHOR
A student of photography and curating at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. In his artistic practice, he talks about the possibilities of human cognition at the intersection of science and emotionality, and the relationship between man and nature. He is inspired by interaction and philosophical reflection on reality. He works mainly with the mediums of photography, installation and sound, with an emphasis on exhibition narrative and texts.
Winner of the 2022 Grand Press Photo and 2023 London Photography Awards, his work has been shown at the 2024 Rotterdam Photo Festival, among others.
Winner of the 2022 Grand Press Photo and 2023 London Photography Awards, his work has been shown at the 2024 Rotterdam Photo Festival, among others.
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