© Mariusz FORECKI
Exhibition is taking place
Kaunas Photography Gallery (Rotušės square 1)
II-V 11.00-18.00,
VI-VII 11.00-17.00
The opening of exhibition: 16:00, May 20, 2009 (Wednesday)
"Blue Box" project by Mariusz Forecki – the story about a change in mentality of Polish people caused by social and economical transformation. By means of pictures taken at mass social events the news reporter tries to make us realize that we have been hopelessly attempting to build our "dream paradise", adopting from the West various ways of behaviour, fashion, gestures and goals.
The subject of photographic project having been realized by Polish and German students is the borderland of the two neighbouring countries. For over a year the photographers of both countries rambled through the towns of the area in order to tell us individually about inhabitants' everyday life as well as the students' attitude to the border territory issue.
“Politicians”
Mariusz Forecki dealt with the politics through the prism of an election campaign. In his photographs we won't see the likeness of the politician to the core – we only have next "of boys from the poster". The photographer tries to make us realize that a politician during the campain becomes an ordinary product, under the same marketing laws ruling most common products such like washing powder or sanitary towels.
About Mariusz Forecki (1962)
Lives and works in Poznan. He is a graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava (the Czech Republic). He is fond of social photography and makes documents of changes occurring in Poland in 1989-2009. He accomplished a large number of photographic projects e.g. “New religions in Poland – Krishna believers”, “New, wonderful world”, “Colours of power”, “Beyond paradise”, “Crumbs of the day”, “BlueBox”.
He often photographed in the areas previously belonging to the USSR (the then name of Russia): Armenia, Belarus, Chechnya, Dagestan, Lithuania, Ukraine. He is a laureate of the Medal of Young Art for pictures concerning social matters. For his photos he often received awards in different contests among others several times was he a prize-winner of Polish Press Photography Contest and in the contest by the Newsweek Magazine for the best newspaper report.
He photographs for top Polish magazines. ZPAF (Association of Polish Art Photographers) rewarded him for his work in 2004. He also works for the TAMTAM Photographic Agency and is a co-publisher (together with Grzegorz Dembinski and Andrzej Marczuk) of the online magazine called www.5klatek.pl. In cooperation with Grzegorz Dembinski he runs a picture story workshop at the Academy of Photography in Warsaw.
