Edyta Wypierowska was born in Poland. She studied photography at Multimedia Communication Faculty at Academy of Fine Art in Poznan, Poland and achieved MA degree in 2003. As an artist Edyta skillfully utilizes the pinhole camera's distortions of space and scale in the image. She builds a camera first and then, she constructs a still life. Final photographs exude a sense of adventure and mystery challenge the viewer's notions of reality.
Still Life I
“The fruits, photographs of which I have taken during a few minutes exposures, are in a strange stadium in-between of ripeness and rottenness. That state is ambiguous. During the exposure the fruits seemed to be ripe and juicy, however there is something on the photographs that foreshadows their near decay. It is not possible to opt for either of the features since each one of them has some traits of the other.
Using a pinhole camera in this case was intentional. Unpredictability of what may happen in a frame was essential. I did not want to have an absolute control. It was also important to me to have some inaccuracies in copying. I believe such on “inaccurate” seeing is closer to human way of perceiving the word since often we are unable to define and name everything precisely.”
The series includes 22 photographs were taken with the camera obscura.
Prints are silver gelatine contact prints, 8x8 inches.
Still Life II
”The pictures were taken with a pinhole camera. I have worked with daylight. For some of the motives I used a mirror to catch the sunlight and highlight certain elements of the composition.”
The negatives have 20x20 inches size and they are contact silver gelatine prints.
CK → It’s been a goal of mine for the past three years to produce monthly features on my website and blog on photographers from around the world that are doing new and innovative things with pinhole photography. A while back I came across this amazing Polish photographer that was doing some truly unique work. And since the world wide pinhole day is on April 25th this year, I wanted to have an artist I really liked. And since it's springtime, I felt that Edyta's pinhole fruit series seemed appropriate. So with the help of my pinhole photo buddy, Jesseca Ferguson and Edtya’s photographer friend Andrzej Bogacz, I was able to make this feature happen this month. I hope you find her work as inspirational as I do. Cheers -Chris
Find out more about Edyta on her website website: www.wypierowska.com
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Stunning and inspirational work. Beautiful in its simplicity and arresting in how it forces one to look and look again. 20x20 contact prints sound incredible! Thanks again, Chris, for bringing all this fabulous work to light.
Saturday, May 15, 2010