honorable mention
Aneta Nowicka poland
title
Women's coal - mine
ANETA NOWICKA
Aneta Nowicka was born in 1980 Poland.
She graduated Krzysztof Kieslowski Film School, post graduated Journalism as well as photography in Poland.
Aneta was awarded Artist – in – Residence Grants in Iceland, Spain, Canada, France and the US.
This determined her works: living in Easter European conservatism she was inspired to break the boundaries in her works.
Having paparazzi London episode as well as promising career as a TV reporter she rather preferred to focus on social aspects: she took photos of people living in streets in China, workers of a bullet-proofed garments factory in Colombia or women working in coal – mines. All of the above, before she started to deal with topics of human roles, bodily functions picturing… herself.
She went on a long journey from photojournalism to self – staged, surreal photography, but she is still interested in human rights as well as in discriminated minorities.
Some of her self- staged pictures may be seen as a grotesque. But there is always a human being hidden behind that clown mask, confronting - and she says she pictures that invisible part.
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entry description
I took series of portraits of women working in the coal - mines in southern Poland. Industry there is dominated by men and also their claims, so that women earn twice less, than men and work 15 years longer. Their needs and lows are not represented by any union. Although women do not work under the ground and they still work in hard and harmful conditions in dust, noise, carrying equipment and shuffling the coal. These is statement to give a voice to the minority of women working in all those coal - mines, where I came from.about the photographer
BIOANETA NOWICKA
Aneta Nowicka was born in 1980 Poland.
She graduated Krzysztof Kieslowski Film School, post graduated Journalism as well as photography in Poland.
Aneta was awarded Artist – in – Residence Grants in Iceland, Spain, Canada, France and the US.
This determined her works: living in Easter European conservatism she was inspired to break the boundaries in her works.
Having paparazzi London episode as well as promising career as a TV reporter she rather preferred to focus on social aspects: she took photos of people living in streets in China, workers of a bullet-proofed garments factory in Colombia or women working in coal – mines. All of the above, before she started to deal with topics of human roles, bodily functions picturing… herself.
She went on a long journey from photojournalism to self – staged, surreal photography, but she is still interested in human rights as well as in discriminated minorities.
Some of her self- staged pictures may be seen as a grotesque. But there is always a human being hidden behind that clown mask, confronting - and she says she pictures that invisible part.
back to gallery