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At present the world-renowned photographer
Jindřich ©treit (born 1946) left a deep mark in the history of Czech
photography in the 1980s of the 20th century. As early as the 80s
he created a unique series about villages in the Bruntál region
where he was living. In doing so he became probably the only Czech
photographer who was sentenced to imprisonment for his work, not
only for the pictures he put on show, but also for negatives, which
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We are glad to invite you to the fifth issue of "5exposures", which will be the first one in a new formula. Starting from the current issue, apart from photo materials from Poland you will find here some stories from the world by our magazine photographers. In Poland we have quite a large circle of authors who, with authentic passion, want to explore the world and present it to others through pictures. Since publication of pictures from abroad is contended with similar difficulties as in the case of publication of picture stories from Poland, we have decided to make our pages available to them. The first collection of materials from the world is concerned with Muslim circle of civilization. |
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In Poland, in the
sphere of customs, there can be found more and more of America.
We have adopted with great ease the tradition of celebrating Saint
Valentine's Day and Halloween, we have the Chippendales and Cheerleaders,
therefore, why shouldn't we practice sports which are popular overseas?
Paweł Olejniczak has photographed a group of sportsmen practicing
American football which is functioning dynamically in Warszawa.
It could have been predicted that after the death of Polish Pope
the country would experience an explosion of a new cult. Press photographers
quite promptly attempted to present the new phenomenon. Łukasz Trzciński
had a close look at pilgrims in Wadowice who have believed that
the water dripping from beneath of the pope's monument has some
special qualities. Adam Lach portrayed the children
from the oncological University Hospital in Wrocław. The photographer
appeared in the hospital in dramatic circumstances when the debt
collectors were planning to take over the property of the indebted
institution, and its patients were threatened by the prospect of
being transferred to other hospitals. The process of building motorways
in Poland, despite the complaints from the drivers on the slowness
of the development, is irrevocably changing the landscape of many
sites. It is also a symbol of the civilization changes that are
occurring in our country. Piotr Małecki has shown in his pictures
sites where the mighty asphalt-concrete "rivers" cut a
new spatial order. Krzysztof Miękus presents - in the interview
of the issue - the problem of Polish photo document, the concern
of photographic education and the intellectual dilemmas of a press
photographer. The part dedicated to the Middle
East is opened with material from Iraq by Łukasz Woł±giewicz. Despite
the difficult conditions, the author managed to tell through the
pictures a story much more interesting than the facts we learn about
Iraq through the means of TV cameras. Witold Krassowski visited
Afghanistan, a country which has been torn by warfare and unstable
political situation over decades. The photo-material by Krassowski
which was concerned with everyday life of Afghan people from
the beginning of the 80s gained recognition in the eyes of the World
Press Photo jurors. In "5exposures"
we present the photo-material of the experienced Polish magazine
photographer, this time about Afghanistan AD 2006. Will the first
Muslim country join the European Union? Will Turkey become the bridge
between two circles of civilization? Before these questions will
be answered to, it is well worth getting to know better this mighty
in nation and history Eastern neighbor of Europe. Some words about
the celebrations of the most important religious festival in Turkey
- Aszura Festival - will be uttered by Agnieszka Łuczakowska. Michał Sita took up the matter of the biggest countryless nation in the world - the Kurds. Photographically classical, black and white story acquaints us with everyday life of the inhabitants of the edges of Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Our permanent columnist made a few remarks, in the margin of the well known case of manipulation of photography, of one of the photographers awarded in Grand Press Photo 2007. We have decided to close the fifth issue of "5exposures" with a story about ourselves. Filip Ćwik aimed his lens in the direction of his fellow craftsmen. He was observing the work of news press photographers, those who are always staying in the first line - in the Sejm, during a manifestation, or during cutting the ribbon... Have a look!, Editorial staff of "5exposures" |
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In the 4th issue of '5exposures'
we continue the trial of a photographic description of the present-day
Poland. Apart from artists with approved output, such as Tomasz
Tomaszewski, we invited to our columns young photographers, who
have just started their adventure with the document, names such
as Piotr Koszczyński, or Maciej Pisuk.
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Tomasz Tomaszewski invites us to meet the everyday lives of a small religious community, living on the north-east confines of Poland. Vivid pictures of the old-believers bring us closer to the world of religious minority, which due to the pressure of globalization fights harder and harder for keeping their individuality. Maciej Pisuk in his photographic journeys observes the modern Poland with serenity. The world of paradoxes and contrasts, in which live the citizens of provinces, or the forgotten city districts gain special charm in Pisuk's lens. Agnieszka Rayss's two colourful materials are a trial of description of new phenomena in mass culture. Among many trends that have been incorporated into Poland for dozens of years from the West, there are men's striptease performances, as well as teenage dance shows during sports events. They are the ones to whom the author devotes her attention to. Jacek Renard with his camera accompanied a group of blind teenagers during a cruise along the Baltic Sea. The photographer observed very closely those young people, to whom such a cruise was a special experience. Is a 'streetphoto' a separate photographical genre? Has it got its separate place in coverage photography? Piotr Koszczyński presents the street life of Warsaw with passion. In our opinion, he is a reporter who narrows down his interests to a concrete place in the urban space. The 4th episode of '5exposures' closes with a Belarus supplement. Our eastern neighbours' everyday lives is brought closer to us by Belarusian and Pole: Andriej Liankievich and Jan Brykczyński. We tend to think of Belarus in a political context, as an authoritarian regime, where people find it hard to live in. Meanwhile, Belarusian's lives shown in the young photographers' photos look surprisingly peaceful and normal. Can a man accustom each reality? Permanent point of 5exposures' is the talk about photodocument. This time we especially recommend an outline from meeting with Arno Fischer, a photo-chronicler from Berlin, an admired German documentalist and teacher. We also recommend a feuilleton by Marcin Buras who worships the late Ryszard Kapu¶ciński. Have a look!, Editorial staff of "5exposures" |
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We are glad to invite you to the third issue of "5exposures". This time, apart from native authors' 7 photo-materials about Poland, we offer a special appendix, dedicated to our southern neighbours - Czechs and Slovaks. |
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In the current
issue we present a set of materials focusing on ethnic and cultural
minorities in Poland.
Rafał Milach continues observing emigrants in Poland. Having photographed the Vietnamese (5 exposures no. 002) he watched Muslims during their religious event. Arkadiusz Gola had won the confidence of a Gypsy family in Silesia so he was able to get into their highly authonomical world and show us everyday Romany life. Then we've got Piotr Małecki who observed living of Polish emigrants in London. In his pictures we can see how strongly their fate is diversified on foreign lands. We can see fellow-countrymen not only as the cheap labour force but also people who achieved the high social and financial status in England. World of the politics is having very strong influence on us not only via action of authorities being in power but also through the everyday and imputent participation of politicians in the public sphere. In "5exposures" we also are also introducing two works touching world of the politics from different perspectives. Filip Ćwik had an opportunity to observe, with his camera, Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz on closing days of holding his high office. The author tried to get through the mask of political landscape to find out who is under it. Mariusz Forecki dealt with the politics through the prism of an election campaign. In his photographs we won't see the likeness of the politician to the core - we only have next "of boys from the poster". The photographer tries to make us realize that a politician during the campain becomes an ordinary product, under the same marketing laws ruling most common products such like washing powder or sanitary towels. Grzegorz D±browski decided to inclose in his photographs extreme situations in the human life. Accidents have always occured and we will always need to face them. Fires, car crashes, construction disasters - people die from them or get disabled, suddenly - with no warning. In the pictures the author intends to seize on the phenomenon of those terrifying occurences. Is it possible to photograph the truth about Polish youth? Certainly not, after all there isn't only one truth about them. Still, there is a place where you can learn a lot about the youth of Poland - the annual event "Przystanek Woodstock". This a few days' music festival, each time attended by more than 100 thousand people, was watched by Grzegorz Dembiński who showed it black and white. In the Czech and Slovakian appendix we decided to present how our friends from beyond the southern border perceive reality of that place. Czech Evzena Sobka and Slovak Andrej Balco have made materials of similar method of revealing stories. These are quite incompact picture series, displaying change of consciousness and public sphere after the decay of communism in the Check Republic and Slovakia. Another thing the both authors have in common is the distance they keep when observing the reality. Czech Karel Tuma focused on a fragment of that new world - he looked on work of topless watresses in Prague pubs. In his material he ponders on influence new trends of spending free time have on our life. Have a look!, Editorial staff of "5exposures" |
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We are handing over the second issue of "5exposures". The main thread in this release is colour photo stories about Poland. We are trying to show a sample of the way our reporters use colours to photograph our real life. |
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Rafał Milach decided to ilustrate the life of Vietnamese minority in Poland. He observed this biggest group of foreigners in our country mainly in the Stadium of Decade in Warsaw where the characters of his story are engaged in trade. Besides, he looked into their private space taking pictures of their weddings, pilgrimages or stays in hospital. Kuba D±browski relates a quite unusual in Polish conditions event - breaking a sexual record (!) The reporter "ventured" to go with his camera and watch the participants of "the fun". Some extra-ordinary and immensely meaningful images have been recorded, revealing with no understatements the absurdity of the situation the main "actors" of which found themselves in. Another set of colour pictures, by Grzegorz Klatka, bring closer a town of Konstancin. The ex-spa near Warsaw is currently resided by a number of celebrities. The photographer shows us everyday life of the inhabitants, their lifestyles and customs. "Blue Box" project by Mariusz Forecki - the story about a change in mentality of Polish people caused by social and economical transformation. By means of pictures taken at mass social events the news reporter tries to make us realize that we have been hopelessly attempting to build our "dream paradise", adopting from the West various ways of behaviour, fashion, gestures and goals. The subject of photographic project having been realized by Polish and German students is the borderland of the two neighbouring countries. For over a year the photographers of both countries rambled through the towns of the area in order to tell us individually about inhabitants' everyday life as well as the students' attitude to the border territory issue. 3 stories form a classical black and white document in the 2nd issue of "5exposures". Michał Łuczak shares his fruits of sentimental journey. For several years he has been taking pictures of Nikisz - an estate in Silesia where the author comes from. Łuczak with a pecular distance but also with a noticable liking follows the life of people there. A big amount of wormth and positive emotions we find in a set of portraits by Leszek Szczaniecki, a photographer resident in Amsterdam, who on the occasion of visting Poland made series of portraits. These are for the author "a collection of dreams on emigration, an attempt to record things which were common and set in the society when he once lived in Poland, yet now, quite distant and transient." Albert Zawada focused on college life in a student hole of residence during an examination period. In spite of being initially surprised by some changes in the way students live now, including treating dorms like hotels, he succeeded in finding facts which associated him positively with life the stuedents lead. He apprecites parties, atmosphere of unity and attempions to make themselves feel at home there. In a sense, for dessert we encourage you to read the talk with Witold Krassowski, one of the most prominent news photographers in Poland. The very experienced personality shares with us his reflections concerning the situation of Polish news photography, necessary conditions to create valuable sets of pictures, sentiment for black and white photographs, formal structure of reporting. Have a look!, Editorial staff of "5exposures" |
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We are presenting you with "5exposures". We want this magazine to be a response to lack of publishers in our country which would show achievements in the field of news and documentary photography. We have been in quite a paradoxical situation for some recent years. The press in Poland and all over the world has given up telling people stories about themselves by means of pictures. Nevertheless, there have still been some photographers spinning that sort of tales. We believe that in the present conditions any attempt to establish the medium where we - news photographers - could continue presenting people's stories, is very important for us. |
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In the first issue of "5exposures", first of all, you will find a few stories about Poland in a local dimension. The pictures by Łukasz Trzciński is a try of presenting subjective story about Nowa Huta - an unusual district of the city of Krakow. Nowa Huta was founded at the time of communism as a town of working class, on the outskirts of the first capital of Poland which was the place of a wonderful history and rich culture. It was meant to be a model project of that utopian vision of society, the town without God. Despite all the effort of the representatives of totalitarian regime using various social techniques, the inhabitants of Nowa Huta resisted to the manipulation. However, having regained freedom they have still had problem to define their own identity. The photos are accompanied by the text of interview with the author - a respectable news reporter, the winner of many prizes in most important competitions concerning news photography. The project of "Białystok - one day" is a collection of pictures taken in the town of Białystok by a group of photographers on the day Poland joined the European Union. News reporters of young and middle-aged generations were invited to participate in that project. Their job consisted in individual recording extraordinary people, places, feelings or situations they saw in Białystok during the first 24 hours in the European Union. "The Palace of Culture" by Piotr Małecki is a story of Polish capital city's architectural "heart" - The Palace of Science and Culture. The building that was raised at Stalin's order as a gift for the inhabitants of Warsaw is nowadays, at the time of freedom, a centre of culture and entertainment, the place where people enthusiastically spend their spare time. It is still a monumental memorial of the architecture of socialism period, towering over modern, glassy office buildings. The first "5exposures" also tries to encourage its readers to make some reflection about life and death. Two black and white in-depth reports concerning most universal, humanistic subjects has been shown by two representatives of the youngest generation of Polish photographers, Stanisław Heyda and Antoni Strzelecki. Heyda tried to be as close as possible to the last moments in his grandfather's life. Strzelecki in turn, caught on the spot rapidly changing moments of his son's birth. At the end of this issue, say, as a dessert you will find a series from the borderland of broadly understood culture. Filip Cwik talks about the most important international piano competition of Frederick Chopin. For 3 weeks, with his camera the photographer put a lot of effort to record emotions which accompanied the pianists, audience and jury members of the competition. The report presented by Tomasz Reiss is the story showing reality of outdoor meetings in Poland. The reporter makes some comments on surprising moments caught up at different street gatherings - political, freedom or entertainment ones. Have a look!, Editorial staff of "5exposures" |
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