The full cycle of Rafał Placek’s photographs

The photographical
project covers a cycle of portraits dedicated to the films – and
indirectly, to their directors – which are invited to Gdynia within the
annual Film Festival. The mission of the project is to inscribe in the
photographical image the moment of the presence of the top Polish films
at the Festival. The cycle is comprised of a series of directors’
portraits – which serve only a “replacement” role in relation to the
primary idea of the project which is to make portraits of the films
distincted. It is then the ambition of the cycle to capture the
atmosphere of a particular film and to render it through a relationship
established on a photographical stage between the director and the film
character created by him. On the one hand, the cycle refers to the
annually selected top Polish cinematographers, on the other hand, it is a
token of the Utopian desire to portrait the very medium of the film.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Rafał Placek: a
  photographer who graduated from the Katowice film school. He works in
  the visual spaces of business, industry and culture – in the areas
  which, seemingly distant, directly change the reality. Portraiting
  places and people, he searches for a special character and intensity.
  The owner of the photographical company portretbiznesu.com