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[polish-art-tournament]

photography round 4 poll 3

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Portrait of Lena Żelichowska wearing a frock by Benedykt Jerzy Dorys, 1931:

submitted description: a woman in suit and tie holding a cigarette

A blacksmith by Maciek Przeklasa (2021?):

propaganda: The badassery of the subject goes a long way. He looks so comfortable, like he just asked an old friend for a light. Also, consider this. Too much light or contrast would blur the heat gradient on the horseshoe and/or the details of the subject's face, but both are so clear. The sparks on the tip of the cigarette give you some dynamics, and the background is atmospheric but subtle. Just a really great portrait.

about the artist: he is on ig and fb, and he appears to be hire-able for weddings

submitted by @slaviclore

[polish-art-tournament]

photography round 4 poll 2

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A man feeding swans in the snow by Marcin Ryczek, 2013:

propaganda: The composition is just so very striking, its simple in the idea but wow it works it. It looks almost unnatural in it.

propaganda: This was taken in Kraków. You can look up Ryczek's own perspective on it on his web site, where he likens it to the Yin Yang symbol. When I first saw it, I felt like it was two worlds spilling into each other, and therefore themselves falling apart in a way, and it felt chaotic to me. Beautiful composition.

about the artist: He has a studio: https://www.imagenationparis.com/marcinryczek

submitted by @slaviclore (among others)

Two souls amidst the winter night by Laura Makabresku, 2023:

[there is a discussion thread on reddit about possible methods of manipulating a photo to get results like this; as far as i know the artist has never disclosed how she did it]

propaganda: For me, it really captures that feeling that lovers have of being the only 2 people in the world. It's also so cozy, minimalistic so the light and shadows do all the work, and the color contrasts are beautiful. really evocative and comforting

about the author: she is one of us: lauramakabresku.tumblr.com

submitted by @slaviclore

[polish-art-tournament]

photography round 4 poll 1

Untitled by Marcin Nagraba, 2017:

submitted description: the artist's mother in one of Agnieszka Osipa's costumes (ig link)

propaganda: The photographer is Marcin Nagraba. The model is his mom (he never posts her name, as far as I can tell, maybe she likes the privacy?). The costume designer is Agnieszka Osipa. Osipa and Nagraba both have igs with tons of really imaginative pagan Slavic inspired work like this.

submitted by @slaviclore

Verneille, Trinidad | Silesia costume from the Borders|Granice project by Piotr Sikora and Piotr Bondarczyk, c. 2007:

submitted description: it shows a black woman in a traditional Silesian costume

more photos in the series

[polish-art-tournament]

photography round 4 poll 4

Untitled from the Ba Lan series by Rafał Milach, between 2005-2008:

submitted description: Vetnamese women are eating hot soup at a restaurant, you can see fragments of vietnamese writing on the window

propaganda: This too is Poland (also i'm getting hungry just looking at this pic)

more photos in the series + a description of the project (in polish)

The independence march (seen from a room at Novotel) by Ada Zielińska, 2018:

propaganda: it got quite famous those 6 years ago. this is a manipulation (the photo of the march and the photo of the girl were combined together by the artist) but it does very accurately portray the apprehension of seeing the streets of your city overtaken by fascists