Ironworks


  • Photographer
    Magdalena Natkaniec
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2011
  • Technical Info
    analog photography

The industrial spaces are a common photographic subject. Fascinated by them as well, I wanted to discover something more than huge spaces, big machines or unreal light. In anonymous workers I saw the real persons. With objective I tracked all the personal signs left by people working in an ironworks in my hometown, Kielce. In the immediate surroundings of their post and in the places of rest I found flowers, porn photos or religious symbols. Writing their names or these of the favorite football team is also a practice. All these objects and inscriptions let the workers domesticate the inhuman world of machines.

Story

The industrial spaces are a common photographic subject. Fascinated by them as well, I wanted to discover something more than huge spaces, big machines or unreal light. In anonymous workers I saw the real persons. With objective I tracked all the personal signs left by people working in an ironworks in my hometown, Kielce. In the immediate surroundings of their post and in the places of rest I found flowers, porn photos or religious symbols. Writing their names or these of the favorite football team is also a practice. All these objects and inscriptions let the workers domesticate the inhuman world of machines.

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