| Photography is something of an evolution for me. I was always connected with painting; I grew up surrounded by paints and brushes, and it seemed as if everybody around me was always painting or drawing. I was watching and touching beautiful handmade frames my grandmother made 50 years earlier, my grandfather was making beautiful hand made frames. |
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Marcin Górsky
Photography is something of an evolution for me. I was always connected with painting; I grew up surrounded by paints and brushes, and it seemed as if everybody around me was always painting or drawing. I was watching and touching beautiful handmade frames my grandmother made 50 years earlier, my grandfather was making beautiful hand made frames.
Smell of turpentine, taste of temperas…and books – idealistic perhaps, but they were my early years.
From around 9 years old I was participating in exhibitions of painting – including my firstsolo show I had in 1991, when I was 19. Painting was giving me joy, but with growing consciousness I started to feel that not bad technique I achieved is not enough – I understood that playing with forms and techniques won’t satisfy me anymore. There needs to be a story a message, mirror of the reality. I started with writing, what really liked and developed was personal reportage, description of piece of reality mixed with description of my emotions and feelings.
This form corresponding with Ryszard Kapuscinski literature led me also to his photography, giving me a feeling that a picture is most difficult way of showing
reality. It joins feature of painting, by the form and composition but it tells a story of a
certain piece of the world and certain reality. This art of capturing the right moment to tell the true of something or somebody, connected with formal requirements and marked with impossibility of repeating the very moment, appear to me as most attractive.
That way photography came around as a medium that allowed me to join those two passions. Traveling and meeting people taught me that if I want to understand and capture piece of reality the way of finding the answers is watching and listening the people.
There – in eyes of people I met I look for the truth which enriches me. Each of
the person I meet enriches me and my knowledge of the world.
My pictures are just witnessing those moments and those people – like sketches in copy book.
I realized, that the key of understanding myself lies in understanding others.
Photography helped me to understand that finally there are no US and the OTHERS, somewhere deeper we are all the same.
This is why I decided to not created new realities on my pictures – trendy
creative photography supported by graphical programs is not for me.
I am interested in simplicity and complexity of life and the intricate worlds,
relationships and reality that surrounds me.
My camera is a tool for writing pages in my personal diary, the worlds I meet everyday – on the street, by my home and community are more fascinating to me than any sophisticated, detached image that I cannot relate to.
I am in favor of slow photography and slow life – long exposures that tell a
story. This is why I use only analogue cameras and analogue materials.
I find real joy in MF photography. I am not interested in a visual other than what
exists in reality, and I believe that imagination itself surpasses anything digital
effects could achieve.
My work has little ambition beyond a need to answer questions for myself and
attempt to be honest with those that see my work, and with those whom I present.
This is how I see the world everyday, I am not inventing stories, I just register
them – on my way./
