Marcin Przybyłko
Thinking in frozen images is a natural condition for me – Marcin Przybyłko admits. Indeed, his photographs seem static, motionless. Persona and landscapes stopped in motion. And in time.
In his cycle, ‘Windows’, Marcin Przybyłko photographs people staring into the space beyond an open window. Looking is first of all a normal, daily activity. The ambience and character of Marcin’s photos is also a prompt in understanding them symbolically. Not only to consider contemplation, sinking into thoughts, but also about being suspended, between two spaces, the internal and the external. The project, ‘Neighbours’, seems to be more ‘technological’ but not devoid of a specific ambiance. Photographing at the seashore, Marcin Przybyłko draws silhouettes of figures out from the background: he brings them closer and magnifies them. This makes the already blurred contours even vaguer just as vague the line of the horizon. Thus two particular landscapes are created. The photographic frame approaches that of a painting: it becomes material, textured. At the same time – the originally registered reality becomes ‘unreal’, different from the moment it was seen. We are surprised by a view we had not expected: “The paradox of unreal reality. This is what I like, what interests me. Photos lie but also bring to life inaccessible worlds” – Marcin Przybyłko has written about his photos.
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