Photographer's Profile

Iwona Germanek

Poland

My life has always been close to nature, in a house near the forest, with dogs and cats under my feet. I remember long hours spent in the garden. That close contact with nature meant that I always felt a part of it. Instinctively, I tried to guess the content encoded in it. To this day, that contact does not allow me to limit myself to talk to people only or to listen to sounds produced only by man-made instruments. In the world in which man perceives himself and nature as two separate entities, we need a time of a return, so that the explicit and hidden content that has always been encoded in the nature came back to us once again. We need to listen to the nature's stories. AUTHOR I am a student of Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, gradaute of Wroclaw's Photography School AFA and a memeber or Association of Polish Art Photographers. I run photography workshops in historical techniques such as cyanotype or wet collodion. In my activities, I combine photography with other areas of artistic expression, trying to establish a pictorial intergenerational contact. Major exhibitions: 2019 Katowice Gallery "Za Szybą", Reminiscences 2019 Kielce Art Exhibition Office, Reminiscences 2020 Bydgoszcz Vintage Photo Festival, Reminiscences. Blue chlorophyll. 2020 Rybnik Festival of Photography, Herbarium 2021Toruń Center for Contemporary Art "Znaki Czasu", Nitki niepamiętania Awards : The Main Director's Award in the Exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Art in Toruń competition, 2020 1st place in the Odklejona Photography Competition, 2020 Vintage Grand Prix Honorable Mention in 6th edition of Vintage Photo Festival in Bydgoszcz, 2020 Honorable Mention in Fine Art Category in 4th edition of MonoVisions Photography Awards for winning entry Brooch, 2020 Honorable Mention in Fine Arte: conceptual category in Neutral Density Photpgraphy Awards, Herbarium 2020 NOMINEE in the 7th edition of Fine Art Photography Awards, category Conceptual, Herbarium, 2021