Polish photographers in Wales

I've meet large amount of Polish photographers in Cardiff. I will indtroduce three of them (favourite ones) shortly to show how different views and how different interest we have:

Bartek Nowicki studying BA Documentary Photography in University of Wales, Newport. He documented Polish Labour in UK, photographing life in Poland also made lot of portraits in different countries. My favourite series from his portfolio is Set called Polish Labour - clever layout of 5 images constructed together to show two side of life - work and home/familly.

Michal Iwanowski - finished MA in Documentary Photography at University of Wales, Newport, specializing in portraits and painting with light, he recieved The Project Assistance Award (British Journal of Photography in association with Nikon). Really great collection of portraits of his friends and other people (volounteers). Interesting point of view and amazing effect of painting with light - it's incredible he just used basic torch, which he bought for 50p in tesco - but what a beautifull result!

Maciej Dakowicz - MA in Documentary Photography at University of Wales, Newport, documentary photographer. His set of images, which he made during last 4 years in Cardiff are really amazing and good known - his photos were published in The Sun, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Fakt, Der Spiegel, NEED magazine, BBC, YAHOO, Serendib Sri Lankan Airlines magazine, Etihad Airlines magazine, The Independent on Sunday, Vacature, New Welsh Review, Kruger, Get Lost!, Digital Camera, FOTO Magazyn, Amateur Photographer, Photography Monthly, DC Photo, Outdoor Photographer, Himal Southasian, World Pulse Magazine, HK Magazine, Star Tribune, Wales on Sunday, Click, Globtroter, Out Traveler, Adbusters. He is really huge!!! Just look at his work and you will understand WHY? !!!

It's time for me to think about the future. It will be long way...

Magic Chalice

Painting with light - magic chalice.

The pictures of the „magic chalice” I took at home, on the table. I used a black cloth as a background, together with a black shirt. The shirt was used to create an effect of a folded surface on which the chalice stands. As a source of light I used a glow stick (colourful tubes with a shiny fluid inside, used as bracelets during parties). The pictures were taken with a Pentax K100D Super camera with a function „bulb exposure” on, which gave me control over how long I can move the tubes. I chose many colours of sticks. The effect I got by moving the tubes around the chalice is a colourful mist, the tubes inside the chalice created a beam of light reaching out of it and the tubes that were moved around the folded shirt gave an effect of roughness of the surface and mist surrounding the chalice. I did not edit the photos in Photoshop because I thought it to be needless.