Photographing a Peacock BY Jacopo FiorancioArt Before you get going to Fotofestiwal in Łódź (6 – 16 June 2013) or Kraków Photomonth Festival (16 May – 16 June 2013), listen to the way stories are told by photographers Rafał Milach and Tomasz Wiech
Occupation: Photojournalist Talk with Bogdan ŁopieńskiArt I couldn’t fathom that plant directors would just let artists wander around their factory floors. That could never happen in a socialist country – Bogdan Łopieński about the 1st Biennale of Spacial Forms in Elbląg in 1965
Art is Useless Talk with Wolfgang TillmansArt I understand the desire to order things, but that should come from a hunger for looking at the world, and not from a desire to order. – Wolfgang Tillmans’ works are exhibited in Zachęta in Warsaw until the end of January
Photography Reclaimed BY Iwona KurzArt The albums ‘Polesie’ and ‘Kronikarki’ are a successful attempt at reclaiming photography. Chomętowska and Chrząszczowa’s images make the past seem contemporary, or at least stripped of the nostalgic patina of age
WHO’S WHO AND WHY:Nicolas Grosspierre BY Agnieszka Le NartArt ‘I like games, based on what one can see in my works, and that I invite the viewers to participate in.’
PHOTOGRAPHY, STILLS & GNASH:Fraudulent Liaisons BY Chris NiedenthalArt The rules of our profession say that press photographs cannot be digitally manipulated in any way, other than what could have been achieved in a darkroom in the old days of analogue photography.
AT A GLANCE:Cocktails in the Shadowof the Redeemer BY Maria PoprzęckaMedia A struggle of ambitions has been going on over whether the Christ of Świebodzin is taller than his Brazilian counterpart. The Polish statue, even the added height of its golden crown, doesn’t stand a chance
Amerykanka BY Lidia PańkówArt We are given a series of modern, attractive, and fun pictures. The authors of the collection have discovered a theme that allows them to present the frivolous side of the work of Zofia Chomętowska
PHOTOGRAPHY, STILLS & GNASH: Nuts to Art Photography BY Chris NiedenthalArt I haven’t yet met a Pole who’s willing to pay me even $1,000,000 dollars for one of my pix
