 Over 150 photographs confronting images from contemporary Poland and Russia - whether and to what extent they differ, is there anything that we have in common, or rather are we worlds apart, as some politicians have it?...
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 Word about an extraordinary find, a suitcase full of negatives, got out as early as 1995. Only in 2007, however, did it make its way to the International Center of Photography in New York. It turned out that this really was a suitcase that used to belong to Robert Capa, who left it in his studio in Paris when leaving Europe in 1939. It was to contain his negatives from the Spanish Civil War. Capa was convinced until his death that the suitcase had been irretrievably lost... |
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 From Hungary to Ukraine, everywhere Agnieszka Rayss took her pictures, as she observes: “In the majority these were nice girls who wanted to look good. I also came across teenager girls that were difficult to bear, but these were few and far between”. These were, thus, ordinary girls in an ordinarily commercialised society. Fragmented, separated into parts – especially the luscious parts of the body – some half-naked and if clothed, craving recognition or success in cheap limelight, in funny lobbies and tiny flats... |
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 The 3rd Photodocumentfestival presents the issue of extremely different types of behaviour and problems of small communities prevalent in the 21st century, in contrast to the 20th century, which was the age of great ideologies, revolutions and social movements. The melting pot of these communities is the place of merger of forgotten tribes, ethnic groups suffering from mutual hatred...
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 60 photographs, digital reproductions made from old and damaged negatives, taken from the vast archives. Stachowiak did not take proper care of his negatives, they are scratched and they demand painstaking work for their reuse to print picture reproductions. But this work is necessary, since his photographic legacy constitutes one of the best documentary collections, which are available in Poznan...
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 Photography Institute Pro Fotografia (www.profotografia.pl) and the School of Humanities and Journalism (www.wsnhid.pl) co-organize the 1st Photodocument Festival in November this year
The programme of the three-day event includes, among others... |
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 The exhibition by 5 Polish documentary photographers is called “Between life”, because although it shows pictures of life, it portrays attempts, beginnings, and torn fragments - fragments of life that Staszek Heyda´s grandfather ultimately faces when looking at the mirror in the collection “Close” which concludes the exhibition. The beginning is marked by cheerful impressions from “The age of innocence” which capture the charm of childhood, a short period filled with confidence in life and the feeling of safety...
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