honorable mention
Katarzyna Wronska - Kedzior norway
title
THE GRAVE FLOWERS
Model: Regine Lovinda
My name is Katarzyna Wronska-Kedzior. I was born on 1979 in Poland. Photography has been my passion since 1996 when I decided to study photography. In 1997, I ended up at the atelier of an eminent Polish photographer, specialist in studio lighting as well as medium and large format photography, and author of numerous influential books on photography and lighting, Leonard Karpiłowski. I was his apprentice until 1999. At that time I shot with a Zenit 12 XP and a medium-format Start 66.
I completed a course at Izabela Jaroszewska’s European Academy of Photography in Warsaw where I studied under Włodzimierz Krzemiński, Izabela Jaroszewska, Barbara Sokołowska, Paweł Duma and others. I then continued my education at the College of Photography by the Association of Polish Photography Artists (ZPAF) in Warsaw where I studied under Stanisław Fitak, Andrzej Zygmuntowicz, Jowita Mormul, Jolanta Rycerska, Paweł Żak, Janusz Lirski and Hanna Musiał.
The turning point in my work came in 2013 when I set off on a number of hitchhiking trips across Europe. These peregrinations served as inspiration to my work and helped me open up to new experiences. What followed were several sessions with literary heroines as the recurring theme. I sought to offer my own interpretation of tragic characters whose love drove them to commit crimes and ultimately fall victims to their own deeds. I experimented with foil and fake blood. Photographs from two of the sessions as part of the project entered the finals of a number of photographic competitions.
Since 2015 I live in Norway where I have my own photo studio. My philosophy is based on the stoicism. I'm glorify calm, silence, harmony. This is what I'm looking for in my photography works.
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entry description
This series was created on 24.02.2022. First shoot we took at 12:09. The background music for this session was Aggressive Viking Battle Music from the movie Vikings. We worked for hours in the silence and darkness of the basement. The resulting portraits are a picture of my feelings and the bond, which we felt during the work. These feeling were from the verge of the life and the death and uncertainty. The associations which I had were voodoo shamans, warriors in battle, and women turning into grave statues standing on the graves of their loved ones.Model: Regine Lovinda
about the photographer
Hi!My name is Katarzyna Wronska-Kedzior. I was born on 1979 in Poland. Photography has been my passion since 1996 when I decided to study photography. In 1997, I ended up at the atelier of an eminent Polish photographer, specialist in studio lighting as well as medium and large format photography, and author of numerous influential books on photography and lighting, Leonard Karpiłowski. I was his apprentice until 1999. At that time I shot with a Zenit 12 XP and a medium-format Start 66.
I completed a course at Izabela Jaroszewska’s European Academy of Photography in Warsaw where I studied under Włodzimierz Krzemiński, Izabela Jaroszewska, Barbara Sokołowska, Paweł Duma and others. I then continued my education at the College of Photography by the Association of Polish Photography Artists (ZPAF) in Warsaw where I studied under Stanisław Fitak, Andrzej Zygmuntowicz, Jowita Mormul, Jolanta Rycerska, Paweł Żak, Janusz Lirski and Hanna Musiał.
The turning point in my work came in 2013 when I set off on a number of hitchhiking trips across Europe. These peregrinations served as inspiration to my work and helped me open up to new experiences. What followed were several sessions with literary heroines as the recurring theme. I sought to offer my own interpretation of tragic characters whose love drove them to commit crimes and ultimately fall victims to their own deeds. I experimented with foil and fake blood. Photographs from two of the sessions as part of the project entered the finals of a number of photographic competitions.
Since 2015 I live in Norway where I have my own photo studio. My philosophy is based on the stoicism. I'm glorify calm, silence, harmony. This is what I'm looking for in my photography works.
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