Meeting with Tomasz Tomaszewski, author of the book and exhibition "The World is Where You Stop" and this year's winner of the "Golden Roll" statuette for lifetime achievement
20.09.2025 | 12:00
Rother's Mills, (Mill Hall, 1. floor), Mennica 10, Bydgoszcz
Free admission
The event will be held in Polish.
The book entitled “The World is Where You Stop” is composed of 150 black and white photographs representing the imagination, interpretation, contemplation and reflection of the author.
The photo exhibition under the same title at the Bydgoszcz Vintage Photo Festival presents a selection of works from this publication
Tomasz Tomaszewski as an unhurried passer-by, according to the words of Professor Tadeusz Gadacz, who wrote an essay for this occasion entitled “Lifting Society”, leaves us traces of memory, a world frozen in a snapshot and takes the reader on a photographic journey in which, as the author himself says: the selected frame becomes, as it were, the whole world, and I discover that it is not only stranger than I imagined, but stranger than I could imagine.
Tomasz Tomaszewski has a Ph.D. from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and is a member of the Union of Polish Art Photographers, the Visum Foto Agency of Hamburg, Germany, the National Geographic Creative Agency of Washington D.C., and The International Press Club. He specializes in journalistic photography and has had his photos published in major newspapers and magazines worldwide including National Geographic Magazine, Stern, Paris Match, GEO, New York Times, Time, Fortune, Elle, Vogue. He has also authored a number of books, including Remnants, The Last Jews of Poland; Gypsies, The Last Ones; In Search of America; In the Centre; Astonishing Spain; A Stone’s Throw; Overwhelmed by the Atmosphere of Kindness; Things that Last; Everything Can Be Anything; Gypsies; Happyland; Black Magic Woman; Possession; The World Is Where You Stop, and has co-illustrated over a dozen collective works. He has held numerous individual exhibitions in the USA, Canada, Israel, Japan, Brazil, Madagascar, India, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Indonesia, Bulgaria, and Poland. Tomasz is the recipient of many Polish and international awards for photography. For over thirty years he has been a regular contributor to the National Geographic Magazine, USA in which eighteen of his photo essays have been published. Tomasz has taught photography in Poland, the USA, Germany, Turkey, Bangladesh, The Philippines, and Italy.