1st place
gold star award
Natalia Krezel
united kingdom
title
Invisible
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entry description
The Invisible is a documentary project that focuses on drinking habits in the photographer’s hometown, a small post-communist village in the middle of Poland. It is about people that do not need /want much from life but somehow were let down and forgotten by society. The project Invisible was mainly inspired by Herzog movie Stroszek and its main character Bruno. People from the project have lots of similarities to the main character, Bruno. They occupy the lower rungs of the social ladder, but they have gold hearts and do not expect/need much from life, yet still the world, society rejects them and disappoints them. The people I photographed are usually seen outside the liqueur store or stumbling on the street, and they are very often subject to the joke from other people from the community. Those people are usually passed by without anyone even noticing them (same as homeless, drug addicts found everywhere around the world). They all seem to be invisible, whether in Edinburgh, Los Angeles, or small post-communist Polish village.about the photographer
Natalia is a photography student based in Edinburgh with a keen interest in portraiture and documentary photography. Born in Poland and currently living in Scotland. In her images, Natalia tries to find a fine balance between the intimacy of a snapshot and the staged portrait. She aims to create images that are reliant on emotion and narrative. Literature, arts, and film continue to be key influences on her work.back to gallery