White Elephants - Pass by me
piotr zbierski | India, Ukraine, Moldavia
Photographer: piotr zbierski
Exhibit Title: White Elephants - Pass by me
Location: India, Ukraine, Moldavia
White Elephants is personal long going series, made from 2009 to 2012. It has been shown also in the form of slideshow as the story in three chapters. The most important was to concentrate on the single faces, gestures, pantomime of feelings and relations. The elements of representation are often degraded to shapes, soft lines and the work is merging many stylistics into one story. It is honest impact of emotions I have experience during my travels. The main point is the impression of experiences, that is necessary for me to take the pictures. Through the metaphors of portraits of the others, I photograph my private, intimate time and space. In White Elephants I’m making the questions about the changes that are visible in our reality being transform by emotions, personal issues. The series is making the doubt about becoming. Dissonance between memories and present as well as differences between real person, place and our imagination of it.
White Elephants is about the balance between inconsistent states and feelings. The original idea of the series was to explore the state dissonance between feelings by looking with a sense of disappearing and longing; that is the thing which, in my opinion, makes the images important to our culture, and life: Photography exists in the way that we know it mainly because we have to die.
Also, images are the rope that ties the fragmented past back together. I believe that memories are somewhat impossible to be imagine, but a picture can create a genuine physicality and real consciousness. On the other side, there are emotions and the unknown, and together, they change everything. It is not a simple tribute to the past, but rather a story about feelings out of time; the interior projected to the exterior.
PIOTR ZBIERSKI - Artistic CV
Education
2006-2012
PWSFTviT in Lodz (Polish Filmschool)
Awards
2012
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013, Nomination
Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award 2012, Winner
Shortlisted in Les Nuits Photographiques 2012 Pictures in Motion, Paris
Shortlisted in Kolga Thibilsi Photo, Georgia
Shortlisted in Terry O'Neill Awards 2011, England
Individual exhibitions
2012
Pass by me, Leica Gallery Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2011 White Elephants, Mieszkanie Gepperta, Tiff Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
Pass by me, Photovisa III, Krasnodar, Russia
White Elephants slideshow, Encountros da Imagem 2011, Braga, Portugal
White Elephants 2, Café Foto 102, Fotofestival in Lodz, Poland
Voice On, Klub Pauza, Photomonth in Cracow, Poland
Group exhibitions
2012
Pass by me, Leica Gallery, Photokina 2012, Cologne, Germany
In the matter of in/visible things, Photokina Academy 2012, Cologne, Germany
2011 In the matter of things, Month of photography in Bratyslava, Slovakia
Lab East, V8, Köln, Germany
Publications in Magazines
2012
Die Nacht, Special Issue, Young Polish Photography
Leica Fotografie International LPI Magazine- Special Edition 2/2012
Archivo zine, issue n.1 "Identify"
Gup Magazine #33 "Stories"
2011
Shots Magazine #114
Ninja Mag #20 "No sex last night"
Works in collection
2012
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
PIOTR ZBIERSKI
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