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Specialised in Fine Art photography and documentary photography, Iacopo Pasqui (b. 1984, Florence) explores the relationship between man-nature-landscape and social behaviour. He often uses photography as a metaphor and tool to critique and observe contemporary society, favouring projects with medium and long timeframes.
He has won numerous prizes and competitions including “Giovane Fotografia Italiana #07” at Fotografia Europea Festival in Reggio Emilia (2019), Leica Talent 24x36, 2011/2012, Off Site Art promoted by ArtBridge, 2014, Contemporary Landscapes and Places in Transformation – Artist residency in Italy promoted by MiBACT and GAI, 2017.
He is among the photographers included in the volume History of Photography in Italy. From 1839 to present by G. D’Autilia, Einaudi, Torino 2012. He is the author of books and publications and has participated in various solo and collective exhibitions, most recently in the exhibition 1999 at the Museo MAXXI in Rome, 2017. He has taken part in artistic residencies and lectures in the University of Perugia and Teramo.
Wojtas is an artist based in Lodź, Poland. She studies at the Film School Lodź and the Institute of Creative Photography in the Czech Republic.
She takes a colourful, chaotic approach to subjects like childhood, education and love. In her works, images of empty classrooms are interspersed with ones of student activities, learning tools and visualizations of discipline and uniformity that as children we were likely not aware of.
Elena Subach was born in Chervonohrad, Ukraine. She obtained a degree in Economics, but started to work as a textile designer. Elena comes to photography in 2012, living in Lviv and joining 5x5/Dzyga art community.
Main topics in her practice are: life in province, religion, connections between mythology and identity, her private relations with the world and her own country, with life and death. Her working method — continuous travels to small towns. She looks for something unique — people, communities, as well as place sand objects they produce. Elena says that provincial towns can be compared to separated islands, which are far enough from the mainland for evolution to goin a very unique way. She collects peculiarities of local cultures, since is sure they are on the edge of extinction, caused by globalization as well as just poverty.
Her project “Grandmothers on the Edge of Heaven” is a private family story, but also a reflection on the gap between generations. Which is multiplied in her case by the gap between two countries and two political systems: Soviet Union and modern Ukraine.
Katarzyna Wąsowska is a photographer and book artist based in Poznań, Poland. Her art practice juggle between subjective, unreal creation photography and documentary. Referring to scientifical and parascientifical literature, researching the archives or interviews she tries to construct stories about specific places or certain communities, far from the facts but reliable historically.
In her works she often focuses on issues connected with migration or its destiny. She is mostly interested in the problematic of constructing identity and how people define themselves and the land of their origins. Recently she is involved in collective photographic research about polish migration to South America. It happens that she gets out of the material world and enters other dimensions of perceiving the world, exploring the paranormal events and believes not connected with any religious system. Finds collective creation as the best way for making photography as permanent process of putting individual thoughts in doubts.
She was born in 1990 by the Polish seaside in Gdańsk. Graduated in Photography on Academy of Arts in Poznań. She is also part of Ostrøv publishing collective.
Patrycja Wojtas (b. 1990) is a photographer, visual artist. Graduated from the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theathre in Łódź (diploma in Photography). She got the Ministry of Culture scholarship in 2017, within which she carried out the cycle Kruszywo/Debris, as well as a project of her photobook. She cooperated with the Archeology of Photography Foundation, e.g. preparing publications Emulsja and LUX, as well as during archival and research queries. She presented her works during group and individual exhibitions, among others, within the activity of the curatorial collective Lajt in Szczecin (Cache, 2017) and the TIFFFestival in Wrocław (Debris, 2018). She participated in FOMU Photobook Workshop in Antwerp and published her works in such magazines as Der Greif, Yet Magazine, FotoRoom, Zwykłe Życie.
Her art practice focuses on the relationship between the human being and the landscape. She tracks the history of the ways of space use, of the actions and transformations that leave a series of dispersed marks behind. Including archival materials in her practice, she reveals the changeability of the space in time and constructs a visual essay about memory.
