1–17.09.2023

fot. Szymon Kobusiński

9. Edition of the Festival of Photography

The motto of the 9th edition of the festival was inspired primarily by observing the formation of projects and conversations with the artists invited to the residency program, who worked independently on their respective themes. One always runs the risk of not being able to assemble such separate statements under a common denominator, all the more so with the other exhibitions shown at the festival, regardless of one’s intention to select such individuals whose past bodies of work to-date correspond with one other on various levels.

Fot. Łukasz Sokół

Maja Kaszkur

Main curator of FFWRS

Meet

this year's

residents

Anna Orłowska
Anna Orłowska

Anna Orłowska is an artist and photographer. She studied photography at the National Film, Television and Theatr School in Łódź and at the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava. In 2013, she was awarded the Photo Global scholarship at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Orłowska creates photographic objects while testing the limits of the medium. She mainly photographs architecture and interiors, revealing the invisible layers of history and its ideological determinants, usually absent from the official narrative. She plays with various conventions, from documentation to creation, uncovering hidden myths, legends and fantasies about the past and creating new constellations of meanings. Her objects, based on photographic images, establish a dialogue with this imperfect medium. Orłowska treats them as a research instrument for exploring inherently fragmentary issues: the notion of knowledge and the work of memory. She lives and works in Warsaw.

Fot. Łukasz Sokół

Witek Orski
Witek Orski

Witek Orski is a visual artist and photographer. He creates photographs, photographic installations and objects. His interests focus on the relationship between images, the social functions of photography and its status in visual culture. The exhibition medium itself is an important tool for him, as he arranges cycles of artwork cycles into types of visual essays. He has been featured in exhibitions held in Poland and abroad.

Orski graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in philosophy, and received his doctorate from the University of the Arts in Poznań. He currently teaches at the Film School in Łódź. He lives and works in Warsaw.

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Visvaldas Morkevičius
Visvaldas Morkevičius

Visvaldas Morkevičius is a Lithuanian visual artist. His photographic projects have been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and in museum and private collections such as the MO Museum, Lewben Art Foundation, SEB Bank, and the Tesonet Cyber City art collection. He gained prominence with the publication of his first photography book “Public Secrets” in 2015, and in 2021 he was awarded the the Riga Photography Biennial – NEXT prize and the ISSP Gallery Award “Seeking the Latest in Photography!”

According to the artist himself, he uses photography anthropologically, employing a variety of photographic aesthetics so that he can manipulate perception, the awareness of time, and a sense of experience mixed with the context of the moment. Morkevičius sees the medium of photography as one of the most accurate for recreating reality and, at the same time, highly malleable when used in metaphorical forms. His projects are self-analytical and intimate, yet not devoid of clearly universalistic qualities.

Fot. Łukasz Sokół

W ramach współpracy nadbałtyckiej gośćmi 9. edycji festiwalu będą artyści z Litwy: Gintaras Česonis, Dovile Dagiene, Vilma Samulionyte i Gytis Skudžinskas. Kuratorem wystawy ich prac pt. „Soul Studies. Nowa litewska fotografia” jest Adam Mazur. Wystawa będzie się składać z prac współczesnych fotografów litewskich młodego pokolenia oraz prezentacji najpiękniejszych książek fotograficznych ostatniej dekady wydanych przez NoRoutine Books, Kaunas Photo Gallery i Prospektas Gallery.

Adam Mazur

Curator

Fot. Łukasz Sokół

Selected exhibitions that you can see during the festival

Selected events

As every year, we try to plan inspiring and attractive meetings.

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