Transfigurations
2019-now
Montreal
Photographing births is a political act of making visible one of the most universal yet most hidden human experiences. In the Western contexts, the medicalization of birth restricts these formative moments from the common imagination, a shared sensory understanding of entrance into this world, by incorporating them into an alienating category of illness or suffering. We are not permitted to witness the power of birthing bodies. I harness photography, a medium which utilizes time as a material, to introduce alternative models of temporality into our self-understandings of origin and eventuality. I link the discussion on our relationship to birth with the discussion on contemporary connection to our primary parent - Earth.
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2019-now
Montreal
Photographing births is a political act of making visible one of the most universal yet most hidden human experiences. In the Western contexts, the medicalization of birth restricts these formative moments from the common imagination, a shared sensory understanding of entrance into this world, by incorporating them into an alienating category of illness or suffering. We are not permitted to witness the power of birthing bodies. I harness photography, a medium which utilizes time as a material, to introduce alternative models of temporality into our self-understandings of origin and eventuality. I link the discussion on our relationship to birth with the discussion on contemporary connection to our primary parent - Earth.
Diary
2014-now
Montreal
When I was 21, I decided to leave Poland and immigrate to Canada in search of a queer home. Since 2014, when I finally settled down in Montreal, I have been working on this ongoing series called “Diary”. I have been taking portraits of my queer and trans friends from connected and connecting through queer kinship. Over the years I have accumulated a large photographic archive consisting of over 500 analog images. My photographs are mainly created using point-and-shoot 35mm film cameras. I see this work as a family archive which offers an intimate and visceral view of the Montreal LGBTQIA+ community depicting moments of vulnerability, love, and play - captured with tenderness and humour.
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10 Pine
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Sarah
2014-now
Montreal
When I was 21, I decided to leave Poland and immigrate to Canada in search of a queer home. Since 2014, when I finally settled down in Montreal, I have been working on this ongoing series called “Diary”. I have been taking portraits of my queer and trans friends from connected and connecting through queer kinship. Over the years I have accumulated a large photographic archive consisting of over 500 analog images. My photographs are mainly created using point-and-shoot 35mm film cameras. I see this work as a family archive which offers an intimate and visceral view of the Montreal LGBTQIA+ community depicting moments of vulnerability, love, and play - captured with tenderness and humour.
Installation view
10 Pine
Sarah
Navid
Kinga
Carmen
Guy and Jamaal
Sarah’s ferns
Crystal’s wig
Moe
Andy
Eliane’s bananas
George, Pomona and Rose
Candi
Alice, Navid and Nima
Sarah Mo
Be and Lee
Oksana
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Kinga
Kinga
Parents
Naomi and Kai
Jordan Brown
Lactatia and Crystal
Vanja
Jamaal
Winnie
E.
Kai and Naomi
10 Pine
Lari
Install Shot MFA Open Studios 2018
Install Shot MFA Open Studios 2018
2017-now
Five years after immigrating from Poland to Canada to live my gay dream, I return to my homeland to revisit what it means to be Polish and queer. This ongoing portrait series is a love letter to friends who inspired me in how to own this complex identity.
Kasia
Miko and Artur
Martyna and Zofka
Kasia and Emil
Dominik
Kinga
Montreal 2017-18
This project is an ongoing series of video portraits in which I film people from my community connected and connecting through queer kinship in moments of care. My videos are constructed using mini DV tapes and shot in queer domestic spaces to reclaim this format for non-heteronormative storytelling and alternative family models. I formally address the subject of chosen family by referring to home videos which were traditionally used by straight middle-class families. Featuring: Candi, Lactatia and Coriander, Jordan Brown, George, Pomona and Rose, Shahir, Zev and Jack. Excerpt: https://vimeo.com/312195431
Does Care Have a Gender? is also a zine! It is comprised of diary entries, interviews and photographs exploring intersections of queerness, family and care. Message me for a free PDF or support my work through ordering a phisical copy :)
Rehab Girls
2013
Lodz, Poland
The series “Rehab Girls” was created in my hometown - Lodz, Poland in a rehab for female “criminal” youth where my grandmother babcia Krysia used to work and where I’ve spent a lot of time as a child following her at work. I returned to this place as an adult and photographed 18 year-old girls during their last months of rehabilitation. The series examines the tension between toughness and fragility of those teenage girls.
2013
Lodz, Poland
The series “Rehab Girls” was created in my hometown - Lodz, Poland in a rehab for female “criminal” youth where my grandmother babcia Krysia used to work and where I’ve spent a lot of time as a child following her at work. I returned to this place as an adult and photographed 18 year-old girls during their last months of rehabilitation. The series examines the tension between toughness and fragility of those teenage girls.
