Andrzej Baturo was creating cycle “Drinking Poland” many years. In this cycle author paints dark scenes of public and everyday alcoholism using humour, sympathy, irony. Photographs made in various festivals, streets, alcohol shops.
As the Czech photographer Jindrich Streit created cycle about smoking, Andrzej Baturo analyses alcohol – as a cult, as a social inevitability, as a conformance sphere. Works of photographer tell us that alcohol is unavoidable part of entertainments, everyday life and carelees of social position. Sometimes alcohol puts to uncomfortable situation, sometimes it works as an imaginably lifebuoy or becomes a terminus.

About Andrzej Baturo
Born in 1940 in Vilna. Artist photographer, organiser of many important photo events, publisher, general director of the FotoArtFestival in Bielsko-Biała, founder and president of the Foundation Centre of Photography. He is also an Expert of the Minister of Culture for photographical affairs and member of the Art Council of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers in Warsaw. Author of many collective exhibitions of press and landscape photography, organized in Poland and abroad.
 
His works are in the collections of the National Museum in Wrocław, and the Museum of the History of Photography in Cracow. Photographer has achieved many prizes and medals for his art activity.