ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Woodstock Festival is one of the biggest music festivals in the world which takes place in Kostrzyn over Oder, Poland. Kostrzyn lies on the border between Poland and Germany. Hundreds of thousands of people who love music and fun come here every year. Woodstock always had followers and opponents. With those pictures, I want to show skeptics that the people on the festival are doing well and that they are having a great time. One of the factors which determined the presentation of the festival on photography was a documentary shown in one of the TV stations which was edited in a way to show the festival as one of the worst places, where only bad things happen. I hope that by showing this series, at least some people will see that even though hundreds of thousands of people are having fun in one place you can still be sure about your safety. Originally it was supposed to be a one-time project – the photos were taken in 2010. Over the next few months I though everything and decided that it will be a several-year project which will end in 2014. Every year I try to create a separate photo series, so that on one hand all of them can be summarized in one series, and on the other, each individual series will show something else.
AUTHOR
My fascination with photography and design started a few years ago. In the meantime I finished photography at the European Academy of Photography (2012) and motion graphics at Active Art Study of Theater and Film Techniques (2010).
After some unpaid projects in 2011 I gave up work as a graphic designer. In the same year I set my goal in photography: I will only practice and develop in black and white photography. I mainly deal with reportage-document and I like it. My photography is a combination of emotions and shades of gray. Sometimes I try to draw emotions only through the light. Photography is not my commercial activity. With photography, I want to show how I see and feel the environment. I once touched commercial reportage and after that I thought to myself that no one will ever tell me again to ‘take less artistic photos’.
My the biggest photo project I realize during the Woodstock Festival in Poland. Over the few months I though everything and decided that it will be a 5-year project which will end in 2014. Every year I try to create a separate photo series, so that on one hand all of them can be summarized in one series, and on the other, each individual series will show something else. In 2015 I would like crowned it with an album release - not only photos of award-winning in competitions but also these never shown in exhibitions and online.
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