A meeting with the author devoted to the latest book "Traveling photography studio" by Agnieszka Pajączkowska. The book is a peculiar reportage depicting the everyday life of a photographer running a traveling photographic studio, in addition he tells many stories of the villagers who this plant reached.
"Good morning, I run a Traveling Photography Company. I travel from village to village, take portrait photos and print them on the spot. Pictures are for free or for something to eat. Or for the story. Because you probably from here? The film will not break, don't worry - the pictures are digital, but printed on paper. That old and will scare people? Don't worry, the portrait will only be for you, I will not give it to the newspaper and you will have a souvenir. Because when was the last time you took a photo with a photographer? Thirty years ago? And you see. Young people have in computers, but it's not the same, right? I? Yes, I live in a car, I drive along the border in the summer. Do you remember that there were photographers and portraits in the past? You really don't have to pay. I will take eggs with pleasure. There is no rush, you will get ready, I'll take a picture and listen. Because please say - how is it here?"
Agnieszka Pajączkowska (born in 1986) - culture expert, researcher of the history of everyday photographic practices, creator of interdisciplinary, photographic and cultural projects, cultural animator, curator, tutor and coach, graduate of doctoral studies at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw, author of scientific texts and reportages.
Since 2012 he has been running the Traveling Photographic Plant (www.wedrownyzakladfotograficzny.pl). In his activities, he combines academic reflection with creative practice and cultural animation. She is interested in the artisanal and utilitarian history of photography and its connections with everyday practices, archives and local history. In 2015, she was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in the field of "Visual Arts". In 2016, as part of the TIFF Festival in Wroclaw, her author's exhibition Wandering Photographic Factory in Lower Silesia was presented.
Winner of the competition "Bodybuilder of the Year 2016" - an award granted by the Radio Culture Center, broadcast in the Three.
In 2017, she was a member of the TIFF Festival program board - the edition held under the slogan "Resources". From 2018, he is a member of the program board of the Fort Institute of Photography in Warsaw.
She collaborated with the House of Meetings with History in Warsaw on the photo exhibition Family Album: VIEWS (together with Monika Szewczyk-Wittek).
She is the author of the exhibition What do you see? Looking at archival photographs in Gdynia in the Museum of the City of Gdynia.
She co-created the following projects: Identities regained. Interventions, Snapshots and Visual Seminar (Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych „ę”), Visual Museum Experiment (Chair of Culture Association), Something that will remain. Local activities with the sociological record of Zofia Rydet (Zofia Rydet Foundation).
Tutor and artcoach with experience supporting animators and creators in projects Young culture managers, Master and student, Snapshots. Meetings with photography, Polis (h) Photo Lab, Experiment Zone (all projects under the activities of the Association of Creative Initiatives "ę").
He belongs to the network of Flying Animators of Culture, co-creates the Landscape Sightseeing Society and the Field Collective with which he develops the idea of combining ethnography, animation and art.
As an author of activities and animator she cooperates, among others with the Association of Creative Initiatives "ę", the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Archeology of Photography Foundation.
As an author of scientific and journalistic texts, she published, among others in "Konteksty", "Zagłada Żydów", "Kultura i historia", "mała kultura współczesna", "Res Publice", "Dwutygodnik", "Krytyka Polityczna", "Widok", "Wysokie obcasy".