Because we are both photography graduates. We would like to share a bit of our passion. Below are some of our personal art projects.
Project Title: Why didn't you shout louder?
Synopsys:
The title of my project is inspired by a poem titled Jim, written by Jacqueline A. Grieve. She writes this poem after her brother – age 46 - committed suicide. The death was unexpected, and the family never found out the true causes. The author in her poem writes that her brother did not give any signs and claims that he suffered in loneliness with a smile on his face.
The aim of this project is to increase awareness of the other person's behaviour and to be alert to signs of suicide. By introducing ordinary places where people take their own lives. During my extensive research into suicide in the UK, I was surprised by the varied and ordinariness of the locations where people choose to commit this final act. They are not the bridges, cliffs, and railways that I would have normally associated with suicide, but the banal and everyday landscapes like offshores, woodlands or even farmland. In many ways, these landscapes are representative of the ordinary and diverse people affected by suicide. With my project, I hope to encourage the viewer to talk more openly about mental health and suicide.
Pawel Lubecki
The title of my project is inspired by a poem titled Jim, written by Jacqueline A. Grieve. She writes this poem after her brother – age 46 - committed suicide. The death was unexpected, and the family never found out the true causes. The author in her poem writes that her brother did not give any signs and claims that he suffered in loneliness with a smile on his face.
The aim of this project is to increase awareness of the other person's behaviour and to be alert to signs of suicide. By introducing ordinary places where people take their own lives. During my extensive research into suicide in the UK, I was surprised by the varied and ordinariness of the locations where people choose to commit this final act. They are not the bridges, cliffs, and railways that I would have normally associated with suicide, but the banal and everyday landscapes like offshores, woodlands or even farmland. In many ways, these landscapes are representative of the ordinary and diverse people affected by suicide. With my project, I hope to encourage the viewer to talk more openly about mental health and suicide.
Pawel Lubecki
Greetings from England
As a foreign student studying and working in England I wanted to present my version of the ‘English experience’ as seen through my own eyes. Using the clichéd images of the idyllic country home to represent my own original vision, this project looks my own aspirations and disappointments using a blend of fact, fiction and idealisation.
Before arriving in England, I was expecting an idyllic country where everything is perfect. Being one of 9.5 million foreigners living and working in England, a country where tradition and patriotism are the biggest value for all people living on this land. I was expecting a country like the United States where everything is big and new. The England which I experienced over the last 7 years has left me with an entirely different view.
This project is focusing on my expectation of a typical British home, as home and family have always been the most important value to me. Everyday I’m reminded that this is not my home. These images are singled out from my everyday experiences in an attempt to remake my original vision of England. Maybe it’s a way to help me strive for better, or more simply, it’s way to conceal my disappointment in its reality.
Pawel Lubecki
Before arriving in England, I was expecting an idyllic country where everything is perfect. Being one of 9.5 million foreigners living and working in England, a country where tradition and patriotism are the biggest value for all people living on this land. I was expecting a country like the United States where everything is big and new. The England which I experienced over the last 7 years has left me with an entirely different view.
This project is focusing on my expectation of a typical British home, as home and family have always been the most important value to me. Everyday I’m reminded that this is not my home. These images are singled out from my everyday experiences in an attempt to remake my original vision of England. Maybe it’s a way to help me strive for better, or more simply, it’s way to conceal my disappointment in its reality.
Pawel Lubecki
Figures
New Year's Eve 2020/21 was one of the strangest things in the life of many people. The day in which we normally celebrate and meet our loved ones has been taken away from us. The situation was not only in Great Britain. This was the case almost all over the world. It is wondering how the day on December 31, 2020 was 'celebrated'. If everyone could remember one image of the day what would it be?
Based on stereotypes, the project presents what a typical day of a resident of any European city could have looked like. Due to the pandemic, it was not an ordinary day full of joy and preparation for crazy fun. It was a day when many people were fighting for their lives or saying prayers for the intentions of their loved ones.
Photo captions are a kind of key to which country a given photo presents. All European countries have been coded based on data from the World Health Organization.
Pawel Lubecki
Based on stereotypes, the project presents what a typical day of a resident of any European city could have looked like. Due to the pandemic, it was not an ordinary day full of joy and preparation for crazy fun. It was a day when many people were fighting for their lives or saying prayers for the intentions of their loved ones.
Photo captions are a kind of key to which country a given photo presents. All European countries have been coded based on data from the World Health Organization.
Pawel Lubecki