Salix Polaris
The Salix Polaris book came to being as the effect of a journey I made with Polish scientists to the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund on Spitsbergen (August/September 2012). The photographs taken there resulted from meeting people, whose lives are inseparably connected with science and nature. The title polar willow (Salix Polaris) is a small shrub only a few centimetres high. Its form resembles human nervous or circulatory system. It is strong, wind and frost resistant, and its fresh sprouts develop also under snow. The willow is defined by dendrologists, who can tell its age by the number of growth rings and read its past, as they use a microscope to examine the scares in the rings. To me, the polar willow has become a symbol of explorer's determination.
This is not a typical album of photographs from the trip. This hypnotic story about the confrontation with nature and other people. And above all, a story about the struggle with himself.
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Biography
Born 1978, Poland) ? photographer, graduate of ITF in Opava (Czech Republic) and Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (Poland), where she works as assistant professor in Photography Studio. In 2009, degree of Doctor of Fine Arts in film arts from Film School in Lodz (Poland). She deals with issues related to working with a photographic social archive. For several years, she has been conducting workshops on photographic narration and photographic image analysis.
President of Culture of Image Foundation www.en.kulturaobrazu.org dealing with activities for the development and promotion of photography
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Awards
2014 - The Best Books 2014, photo-Eye web portal, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Honorable mention for Salix Polaris books,
2014 - honorary mention for the book Salix Polaris, International Photography Awards, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles, USA,
2011 - honorary mention for the book The Other Side in the competition Blurb Photography Book Now, New York, USA,
2006 - award for the series of photographs and objects „Pure Formality, Biennale of Young Art, Fish Eye 4, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in S?upsk and Ustka,Poland,
2005 - honorable mention in the 9th National „Portrait” Photography Competition in Trzcianka
2007 - scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2006 - scholarship of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship
