Friday, May 29, 2020

Artist of the day, May 29, 2020: Marcin Ryczek, a Polish photographer (#1007)

Marcin Ryczek (1982) is a conceptual photographer based in Cracow, Poland. Taking inspiration from the world of geometry, Ryczek’s artworks have a graphical quality with clear focal points, straight lines and minimal textures. He creates visual metaphors with simple photographic configurations, raising philosophical questions in a quiet, monochromatic way.

His photographs were presented, among others, at exhibitions in USA, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Romania, India, England, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Serbia, Taiwan and France.

One of the most influential American website The Huffington Post has recognized his photo as one of the 5 best photos in the world in 2013. His photo "A man feeding swans in the snow” was admitted to the prestigious collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the Silesian Museum in Poland.

His photos were placed in newspapers and portal from around the world (The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Yedioth Ahronoth, La Repubblica, Politiken, The Daily Telegraph, National Geographic…). In 2017, Marcin Ryczek’s photography was on the cover of the book 100 Great Street Photographs – by David Gibson.

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 Secret window

 Border (road to Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev – Ukraine)

 Colour of life

 Oneness

 The United States of India

A man feeding swans in the snow


 Emigration – The United States of Earth

Reflection

Liberation

 Out of the herd

 A Game of Chess

 Part Of The Whole

 Streaming Head

 Pyramid I

Horizons

Transition

Battle

 Catching a feather

Ascent

Upwards

 The Middle Path

 Un real

 Varanasi – City of Life and Death

 Hiroshima – Phoenix Rising from the Ashes

Parts

Unknown

Forest

 The Game

 Graph of life

 Out of the Grey

Running

 The Way

Space

 Towers to God

 Touching Space

Otherside

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