kuba dabrowski

The Mpemba Effect

2012-02-08T14:05:00.001-08:00

Hot water freezes in the mid-air. Everything freezes.

We've got each other and that's a lot

2012-02-08T14:04:00.000-08:00

Every morning I start with this one. It's my second favorite youtube video (pierwszy jest "Wywiad z Mordelem").
You can watch it a hundred times and each time you notice something new. It is a very complex sketch of the American society.
And if you listen carefully, it turns out that the lyrics of the song are pretty much up to date.

Komunikat

2012-02-07T13:35:00.000-08:00

Rozstałem się z Przekrojem. Po dwunastu latach znajomości i czterech latach prowadzenia Stopklatki.
Mam nadzieję, że rubryka pojawi się w jakimś innym miejscu.
Przekrój to kiedyś była super redakcja. Garść nostalgicznych zdjęć.

Kabul Coke Delivery

2012-01-31T09:07:00.000-08:00

Afghan archive still hiding stuff to be discovered.

I Love Trains, I Love Every Kind of Train

2012-01-30T08:03:00.000-08:00

Molly Nilsson. Dzisiaj Kraków, Piękny Pies. Jutro Warszawa, Cafe Kulturalna.
Bilet w cenie 'co łaska', bądźcie hojni i dziękujcie Front Row Heroes.
Idźcie i uromantyczniajcie się.

Diane Arbus

2012-01-30T08:01:00.000-08:00

If you are in Paris, even if you have seen/read all the books and you think you know a lot about Diane Arbus.
At Jeu de Paume, up until the 5th of February.

Presidential M&Ms

2012-01-28T15:14:00.000-08:00

The real thing from the board of Air Force One.

No One Could Not Agree

2012-01-22T16:32:00.000-08:00

Amanaemonesia od Moniki.

Four Cities Far Away

2012-01-22T16:20:00.000-08:00

Warszawa, Olsztyn, Milano, Paris.
A lot of time on the road, got addicted to audio books. "The Shining" is on.
Shooting TAW and backstage for WWD, here.

MARIOS we Wrocławiu

2012-01-12T13:40:00.000-08:00

Jutro (czyli w piątek) o 18, we Wrocławiu, w galerii BWA Design przy ulicy Świdnickiej odbędzie się spotkanie z MARIOSami.
Chłopaki opowiedzą jak pracują, pokażą rzeczy z nowej kolekcji i archiwów, przywiozą ze sobą katalogi, mariosowe magazyny i mnóstwo dokumentacji.
Z ubraniami MARIOSów często jest tak, że dopóki nie zobaczysz ich na żywo i nie dotkniesz, to tak jakbyś ich w ogóle nie zobaczył.
Jest okazja, wybierzcie się. Ja bym się wybrał.
Szczegóły tutaj.

WWA/WWD

2012-01-07T03:32:00.000-08:00

Online version here.

The Future

2012-01-07T03:28:00.000-08:00

Training

2012-01-07T03:24:00.000-08:00

Mellow Yellow

2012-01-02T03:00:00.000-08:00

Motorini

2011-12-29T05:14:00.000-08:00

Scooter fashion in Milan for WWD. Today's cover story.

Miły dodatek

2011-12-29T05:09:00.000-08:00

W "Tygodniku Powszechnym" dodatek o Miłoszu z moimi zdjęciami.
Proste zdjęcia.

Janusz Głowacki

2011-12-28T15:01:00.000-08:00

W nowym "Wprost".

Safari

2011-12-21T22:00:00.000-08:00

Resting My Bones

2011-12-21T15:55:00.000-08:00

Pietro Wearing Landscape

2011-12-20T14:28:00.000-08:00

Marios SS2012 t-shirt with my Afghan landscape.

Heroes

2011-12-20T14:23:00.000-08:00

'News', 1941 - nine-ton stainless steel bas-relief by Isamu Noguchi in the AP building at the Rockefeller Center.
It depicts how it used to be.

Smutna książka na gwiazdkę dla zwalnianych z pracy kolegów: Bernard Poulet "Śmierć gazet i przyszłość informacji".

Swanski

2011-12-19T11:57:00.000-08:00

Swanski for Red Bulletin.

Warszara

2011-12-06T13:54:00.000-08:00

Few days in Warsaw.

Maestrzy

2011-12-06T13:32:00.001-08:00

Kiedyś na szczecińskim przejściu dla pieszych zrobiłem zdjęcie Webbera.
Webber z Łoną nagrali piosenkę na dziś.

Dostawa u Moniki

2011-12-05T14:35:00.000-08:00

Monika wrzuciła nowe rzeczy na Vintage Hunters. Kupujcie.

New arrival at Monika's Vintage Hunters. Buy.

Six Handshakes Theory

2011-12-05T13:28:00.000-08:00

Wojtek Kocołowski told me about a fascinating documentary he had seen. The movie tells a story of Ion Barladeanu, a Romanian homeless
who became an art-world celebrity. During Ceausescu era he used to make naive pop collages, when the system fell he lost his job and started
living in the street. In 2008 a young gallery from Bucharest discovered him and the world career started. The movie won Emmy, here is a trailer.

In March 2008 I had an exhibition in Ha'Art gallery in Bucharest. Dan Popescu, owner of the place had just met a crazy beggar who had a briefcase
full of incredible political collages. The portfolio was his treasure. Dan brought him to the gallery when we were mounting the exhibition, they talked
in Romanian, so I couldn't understand a thing. When they were finished I made two portraits of this Hank Chinasky impersonation.

And now I google mr. Barladeanu and I find a picture of him chatting with Angelina Jolie.
Mr. Barladeanu, Dan - congartulations!

Let's Talk Tak Talk

2011-11-27T23:35:00.001-08:00

We Are the World

2011-11-20T10:32:00.000-08:00

Thursday, the 17th of November two mass events took place in Milan: launch of the Versace/H&M collection and 'Occupy the School' march.
Here goes a mash up.

Yesterday We Were the Tigers

2011-11-20T09:51:00.000-08:00

Cybulski Mikulski

2011-11-16T12:37:00.001-08:00

W środku włoskiej jesieni natknąłem się na polskich aktorów.

Style on Paper

2011-11-12T15:22:00.000-08:00

The first printed issue of Style.com is out on the market.
It features my collage map of Milan. I guess I can call it my official debut as an illustrator.

Vintage Exotic

2011-11-12T15:00:00.000-08:00

Flea market nugget.

They Go

2011-11-12T14:20:00.000-08:00

Ginger and November go together well.

Castello, Lugano, Como, Milano

2011-11-06T14:49:00.000-08:00

It's November. Mosquitoes are still active.

We Wrocławiu jest wystawa

2011-10-19T01:47:00.000-07:00

Wystawa nazywa się "Un lacrima sul viso", na cześć zamieszczonej poniżej piosenki Bobbiego Solo. Zdjęcia są z grubsza o tym, że ciężko
jest dzisiaj nagrywać takie piosenki i że łatwiej jest sobie różne rzeczy wyobrażać, niż zajmować się tym, co dzieje się naprawdę.

Miejsce akcji: Dom Edyty Stein;
Czas akcji: Otwieramy w ten piątek o 18, po wernisażu będę pokazywał slajdy i narzekał na współczesny świat;
Organizator: Festiwal TIFF.

Zapraszamy.

It's a Buyer's Market, They Can Afford to Pick and Choose

2011-10-17T15:17:00.000-07:00

Billy Bragg wrote this song in 1983, Rancid's Lars Frederiksen re-recorded it in 2001. All these years later,
in the precariat days of ours, the lyrics seem more valid than ever. I am wondering if there are any new bands
recording songs about "the situation" and I just don't know them, or do we have to listen to the old tracks on and on?

Kuba na tropach Tomka

2011-10-12T13:19:00.000-07:00

Tomek Szczukiecki, supermodel z Wrocławia dla kwartalnika "Fashion".
Kilka dni wczesnym latem, teraz w kioskach.

Tomek Szczukiecki is a model that you know from e.g. Paul Smith and Versace campaigns.
Few early summer days in Milan for a Polish magazine entitled simply "Fashion Magazine".
On the newsstands in Poland.

Armed with Lenses

2011-10-11T06:09:00.000-07:00

From 1944 to 1946 the U.S. Camera Publishing Company published a series of comic books that were supposed to get American kids interested in photography.
I imagine little Joel Meyerowitz spending his pocket money on it and reading it under the desk during chemistry classes.

Michał Buś mi podesłał.

North and South

2011-10-08T12:39:00.000-07:00

Europe Is Our Playground

2011-10-08T12:26:00.000-07:00

Last month I traveled by: planes, trains, ships, boats, cars, bikes, skateboard, scooters, metro, trams and buses.
I did not travel by: taxi, motorcycle, helicopter.

Hasło: okoń!

2011-10-08T10:36:00.000-07:00

W aktualnej Vivie zrobiony w sierpniu materiał o dziennikarzach TVN24.

Part of a small feature on the journalists of a Polish news channel TVN24.
For 'Viva' magazine, out on the newsstands in Poland.

Five Exabytes (1 EB = 1000000000000000000B)

2011-10-06T14:40:00.000-07:00

Eric Schmidt of Google estimates that every 48 hours now we create as much information as we did from the beginning of the human civilization up until 2003.
It's about five exabytes.

Eric Schmidt z Googla szacuje, że w ciągu 48 godzin jako ludzkość produkujemy dziś tyle informacji, ile wyprodukowaliśmy od początku swojego istnienia do 2003 roku.
To około pięciu eksabajtów.

Dan Comes to Town

2011-10-06T13:13:00.000-07:00

After two crazy fashion weeks I am back online and back to posting.

I had a lot of film developed. An assistant at the lab misspelled my name on the envelope, she wrote: Don Brovski.

This is Dan Deacon at OFF Festival in Katowice, two long months ago.

Greetings from Afghanistan

2011-09-21T14:39:00.000-07:00

Sometimes amazing things are going on, you are super exited and still you have to be quiet about them. I don't like keeping it quiet, but that's life.

Now the silence is over: Marios SS2012 collection features some of my pictures from Afghanistan. They are printed on plisse skirts, bags,
bomber jackets and many other kinds of garments. It feels really great to see your images reinterpreted that way.

These are two sample looks, more are coming.
Official premiere during Milano Fashion Week.

Ricotta di pecora

2011-09-21T02:20:00.000-07:00

Niedziela, ostatni wieczór na Sycylii.

1. Kolega Gianpietro z podstawówki ma gospodarstwo, w którym razem z rodzicami i bratem hoduje owce, wino i produkuje ricottę i primo sale. Absolutny slow food, ale oni raczej tego słowa nie znają. Po prostu sobie żyją i jedzą, tak jak żyli i jedli ich dziadkowie. Zaprosili rodzinę Bertugliów na kolację, a rodzina Bertugliów zaprosiła nas. Na sycylijskiej wsi piękne widoki, czyste powietrze, białe psy wałęsają się po podwórku, słońce zachodzi i tak dalej. Pokazali nam jak się robi ricottę, później zjedliśmy ją na świeżo, po prostu z chlebem. Nawet dziadek Vito się zajadał. Piliśmy wino zibibbo, wszyscy rozmawiali w dialekcie, a ja próbowałem coś zrozumieć. Skończyły mi się negatywy i przerzuciłem się na cyfrę. Wieczór tak 'prawdziwy', że aż niewiarygodny. Zabraliśmy się dosyć szybko, bo gospodarz wstaje przed piątą, żeby nakarmić owce i wcześnie kładzie się spać.

2. Wracamy do domu przez promenadę w Mazara del Vallo. Wesołe miasteczko, cyrk 'Orfei', marina, lodziarnia. W pewnym momencie niespodziewany tłum, samochody i skutery zatrzymane na środku ulicy. Ludzie wysiadają, stają na murku i patrzą w morze. Zatrzymujemy się. Po wodzie pływa policyjna łódka. Okazuje się, że do plaży dotarli imigranci z Tunezji, lub z Libii - nie wiadomo. Na ziemi leżą ubrania tych, którym udało się dopłynąć do brzegu, przebrali się w coś suchego i pobiegli w ląd. Policjanci znaleźli ponton, na którym imigranci dotarli na Sycylię, teraz szukają ciał. Często zdarza się, że Afrykanie nie wytrzymują na ostatnim odcinku trasy i toną. Z boku, na murku siedzi dziewczyna w chuście i się modli.

Trudno o tym dobrze napisać, ale głupio nie napisać.

Toretta Granitola

2011-09-12T16:45:00.000-07:00

No internet access until Monday, a lot of granita instead.
Take care!

Bart Is a Girl!

2011-09-11T04:58:00.000-07:00

Actor's Studio represent. Rafak, widziałeś to?

Hunting High and Low

2011-09-05T10:28:00.000-07:00

Vintage picture hunting goes on - in this episode a 70's print found on a street stall in Brera, the very first basketball photograph in my 'collection'.
There's no caption nor stamp on the reverse. I don't know what teams are playing and I have no idea who took the picture. I suppose it's a crop
from a wire agency shot done at some local newspaper in Milan.

Hockney on iPad

2011-09-03T02:34:00.000-07:00

It's not a fresh news but I've learned about it only yesterday - David Hockney has an iPad, he makes drawings on it using an application named
Brushes and he exhibits the effects in the galleries, on a set of iPads hung on the wall. Apple is not paying him a dime, they approached him
after the first show he had in Paris but he refused. He is doing it because he loves it. He likes the glow of an iPad and he likes the fact
that there's no original copy of a drawing, you can e-mail it and have as many originals as you want.

I have always been a huge fan of mr. Hockney - both as an artist and a theoretician. But with these iPad drawings I am lost. I am sharing.

Tanti salti e altre acrobazie

2011-08-31T13:37:00.000-07:00

A tiny Lancia Y advertorial for Vogue Italia. Out on the newsstands.

Muzyka Końca Lata

2011-08-31T08:18:00.000-07:00

Boxers

2011-08-30T12:46:00.000-07:00

Rephotographed from an ad in a 1975 issue of "Diabolik".

Agata Bogacka

2011-08-24T15:51:00.000-07:00

Dla "Wprost".

PS. Bardzo fajny tekst o "Amerykance" w "Dwutygodniku".

Ghost Town

2011-08-24T15:11:00.000-07:00

Basically we are spending August in Poland but I had to go to Milan for a couple of days.
Everybody was saying the city was going to be empty in August.
I did not expect it to be that empty. And that hot.
Surreal experience.

Willie on Watch

2011-08-04T15:36:00.000-07:00

Marios, Leszek and Willie are in Olsztyn working on a new collection. We paid a visit.

Once Brothers

2011-07-31T12:07:00.000-07:00

A documentary about Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic.
Keywords: basketball, friendship, war.
Super sad.

Limunada. Burek. Dowidżenia

2011-07-30T04:23:00.000-07:00

Zagreb. First time in the Balkans. We were working a lot, so we didn't get to see that much, but what we managed to see was fascinating.
Surprisingly modernist and elegant. And they have a monument of Drazen Petrovic!

Una canzone su un' astronauta vs. Písnička o astronautů

2011-07-27T16:18:00.000-07:00

Two rock and roll tracks about signore Yuri Gagarin.
Both of them in the languages I speak a little, but not yet enough.

American Woman

2011-07-25T23:27:00.000-07:00

Jakiś czas temu Kuba Śwircz poprosił mnie o pomoc. Archeologia Fotografii zaprosiła go do zbadania i zreinterpretowania fragmentu archiwum
Zofii Chomętowskiej. Fragmentu z czasu, kiedy pracowała jako etatowa fotografka w Ministerstwie Komunikacji.

Zrobiliśmy z tego 'elegancką' międzywojenną historię o fajnych samochodach, wypoczywaniu, pięknych wnętrzach i przyjemnościach podróżowania po Polsce.
Świder, Radość, Iwonicz, Odrzykoń, Prochońsk, wille "Eugenia" i "Sosnówka"... takie romantyczne miejsca akcji.
Trochę prawda, a trochę pociągające kłamstwo.

Książkę można kupić w siedzibie Archeologii Fotografii i w fajnych 'artystycznych' księgarniach.

Bracia B. i spółka

2011-07-24T16:07:00.000-07:00

I am not lazy, I am not bored. Nothing like that. I've just been off the web for quite a while. Now I am back and I am back to business.
Chronologically.
I spent the first days of July with Rafał and Krzysiek. We were traveling in a camper car, making stops in small towns of the North-Western Poland,
teaching local kids how to take nice pictures and have fun with it and encouraging them to show us 'their world'. It was exhausting (too much football!),
but absolutely amazing.
We were a part of a bigger project entitled '4x3'. Read more about it here.
The book with the photos by the kids is coming out in Autumn. This is a sneak peek set of images by the boys and girls from Lublino and Chociwel.

Video Games

2011-07-14T14:48:00.001-07:00

I know Monika has uploaded this one some time ago. No matter, it still rocks.

Che figata di serata

2011-07-14T12:37:00.000-07:00

We drove to Como. We went to grab a pizza and we found ourselves at this really awesome party.
There was karaoke, there was limbo dancing, there was everything. We stayed till the lights went out.

Zaczynając od moich ulic

2011-06-30T10:21:00.000-07:00

W Camelocie w Krakowie otworzyła się właśnie wystawa "Zaczynając od moich ulic". Na wystawie jestem ja, Andrzej Kramarz,
Łukasz Trzciński i Wojtek Nowicki. Jest Rok Miłosza i wystawa jest oczywiście inspirowana Miłoszem.

Dla mnie punktem wyjścia była "Rodzinna Europa". Bałem się, że to będzie jak odrabianie pracy domowej i wywiązywanie się z krępującej umowy,
ale książka celnie trafiła w mentalny moment transferu z kraju do kraju i faktycznie była inspiracją. Czuję, że zrobiłem przy okazji Miłosza
jakiś fotograficzny krok do przodu. Nie spodziewałem się tego. Zdjęcia są takie jak zwykle, ale trochę inne - prostsze i bardziej 'na zewnątrz'.

Wystawa czynna do 31. sierpnia.

Kuba con la kappa

2011-06-28T05:36:00.000-07:00

Some sample backstage shots I've taken for WWD during Uomo Fashion Week in Milan. Some were used on the magazine's website,
other ones are coming in print.
It was crazy, in four days I released my shutter over 6700 times. I haven't even had time to look at the material properly.
I love this kind of chaos and I hope to do it again.

Top to bottom: Alexander McQueen, Burberry Prorsum, Jil Sander, Etro, Z Zegna, Prada, McQueen, Gucci and Prada again.

Jam! Jam! Here Comes the Man!

2011-06-24T00:58:00.000-07:00

Three years ago he was Elvis Costello (you can download 'This Charming Mixtape' here), today he is Michael Jordan.
A man of thousand inspirations, Theophilus London!
Has any of you read Simon Reynold's 'Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past'? Is it any good?

Warsaw Couples

2011-06-22T01:27:00.000-07:00

The first issue of "unFlop Paper" is finally out. If you have a chance of getting your hands on it, just do it. It is amazing.

Archivio Afgano

2011-06-16T03:49:00.000-07:00

For a reason that I cannot yet disclose I've been going through my Afghan archive.
These are five images that I have skipped while making the first selection three years ago. Why did I?
Kids, take my advise and take good care of your archives. You will appreciate them in the future.

Yaeh, I Like Muscle Cars

2011-06-15T06:29:00.001-07:00

We go to flea markets. All the time. Monika hunts for clothes and I hunt for photographs.
Among heaps of family snaps sometimes I am lucky to find stuff that stands out.
Last Sunday I was lucky.

Don't Mess with Texas

2011-06-13T15:00:00.000-07:00

Mavericks got the title. Is there anybody who is not happy about it?
The series was amazing, it was like a battle between two visions of basketball. Team playing as a team versus hyped and full of themselves 'big three'.
The evil empire has been defeated (for now at least).

But what if the Mavs had not won? I think they had it covered. The guy standing behind Dirk would have silently taken care of everything. Texas style.
Taki, można powiedzieć, Cichy Wichrzyciel.

Nogami

2011-06-10T14:30:00.000-07:00

W sobotę 21. maja przeszedłem Katowice na piechotę. Od Tychów do Chorzowa. Trochę na około, trzydzieścikilka pouczających kilometrów.
Fotokast z wycieczki w ramach projektu Discover Katowice do obejrzenia na pokazach jutro (sobota) na Osiedlu Tysiąclecia i pojutrze (niedziela) w Szopienicach.
Oprócz mnie wśród autorów m.in. Rafał Milach i Tomek Wiech.

Home Alone

2011-06-09T05:57:00.000-07:00

Monika has been away for a while. I watched "Commando" and read a really stupid fumetto entitled "Il Morto".
Now Monika is back and we're gonna be watching some serious cinematography, like "Friends".

Meringue Bones

2011-06-03T02:53:00.000-07:00

These bones are meringue bones! They are sweet and crispy and good. I think Willy might have been a little disappointed they were not 'real'.
Guys from Essen magazine made them as a snack for the opening of the new Marios' studio in via Eustachi.

A Wonderful Catastrophe

2011-05-31T01:19:00.000-07:00

PXA torunament in Parco Sempione. We took the beating, but we survived and it was great.

He Smokes, He Bails

2011-05-26T07:49:00.000-07:00

Meet James Nicholson. He smokes, he bails and he's a good host in Paris.
Now he also has a film in the Krakow Film Festival.

"Nobody Knows My Name" - sobota 19:00, kino Mikro.

Dzisiaj w Pięknym Psie Abe Vigda, ale jesteśmy w Mediolanie.
W Mediolanie grał Billy Bragg, ale dowiedzieliśmy się dwa dni za późno.

Rozmawiamy o Ameryce

2011-05-24T15:09:00.001-07:00

W "Kikimorze" wywiad, który zrobił ze mną Kuba Śwircz.
Rozmawiamy o Ameryce, cały numer jest o Ameryce.

And Now

2011-05-24T14:54:00.000-07:00

The mustache, the corduroys, the vest... I am not a fan. It's over-styling and to me it looks like he's wearing a costume instead of his real clothes.
The tricks though... I've never seen something like this before. Check Richie Jackson out.

Hype Williams

2011-05-18T14:32:00.000-07:00

Hype Williams for PIG.
Buy magazines. Otherwise they will die out.

Jungleland

2011-05-16T07:07:00.000-07:00

I am in the Prada and Vogue Talents Mnimal Baroque project and I am happy.

New Girl in Town

2011-05-16T02:12:00.000-07:00

Zosia, Bartek. Franek, Malwina. Normalnie życie.

Save Fauna & Flora

2011-05-16T01:45:00.000-07:00

As you've been warned, we (me and Marios) are still working working working on the scarves project and new pictures will successively be coming.
This is an outtake from a shoot we've done with Max. It was quick and good.

To be continued.

One Wild Animal, Two Naked Ladies

2011-05-15T12:35:00.000-07:00

The first picture is by Jeff Dunas, I rephotographed it from the Italian edition of 'PHOTO' magazine from 1979. The second one is from master Weegee himself. I came across it accidentally, I didn't realize he used to do nudes.

Freez!

2011-05-14T06:16:00.000-07:00

A song that keeps me going.

Ballin'

2011-05-11T13:44:00.000-07:00

I have been traveling and shooting a lot lately (and not in the basketball terms).
Some of the pictures I will be posting here, other will be on show someplace else. I will tell you and you will know.

W nowym 'Przekroju' tekst o Ryanie Mcginleyu.

He's Dancing with Himslef

2011-05-07T13:32:00.000-07:00

Zawsze z Krakowa przywożę nowe przeboje.
A new hit from Cracow.

As I Walk the Block to My Favorite Neon Sign

2011-04-30T06:17:00.000-07:00

These are mostly old pictures, the weather is much much better now.

Girls against Boys

2011-04-28T15:09:00.000-07:00

An advertisement of a gym from "Intrepido" magazine, 1976.

I think sometimes I like looking at those old magazines/comic books/photographs better then actually taking pictures.
Expect way more reproductions like this one.

A call for help: the comments don't work and I've got no idea how to fix the problem. Has the same thing happened to anyone of you?
Any advice? Via e-mail. Thanks in advance. I like the comments.

Sokół i Marysia, take 2

2011-04-28T04:57:00.000-07:00

1970 - 2011

2011-04-22T06:34:00.000-07:00

Tim Hetherington is dead. He was killed in Misurata, Libya. You have probably read about it a million times already. It is a very sad news,
just as every death is a very sad news. In all this sadness let's not forget that Tim Hetherington was a professional war reporter and he simply
had to take the worst case scenario into account. He knew what he was stepping into going to Libya. War reporters do die. In general people in
war zones do die.

What seems strange to me is that when I read about Tim Hetherington's death I mostly read about the death of a 'war photographer' or of a 'war photojournalist'.
This is what the headlines tend to say. I think that his death is a good moment to realize how out of date the definitions we use are. It is truth,
he won World Press Photo (one of my favorite Pictures of the Year ever) but he also made a movie that was nominated for the Academy Award.
Which of those is more important and what should define him? None. He was neither a photographer nor a filmmaker, he was a modern day war reporter
doing it all and asking himself no questions. He had a story to tell and photography was just one of the media he used. This is the direction most of us
should be heading. I don't mean war, I mean asking no such questions and just telling your story.

Here is a quote from the NYT Lens blog interview Tim Hetherington gave after the premiere of "Restrepo": - We live in a post-photographic world.
If you are interested in photography, then you are interested in something — in terms of mass communication — that is past. I am interested
in reaching as many people as possible. And another one: - If we are interested in the outside world and making images of it and
translating it and relaying it to as many people as possible, then in some ways the traditional photographic techniques are really not important.
So simple, so true.

The video above is a 'Diary' of a war correspondent Hetherington had put together after 10 years on the frontline. Devastating.

The Old Firms

2011-04-22T05:23:00.000-07:00

The play-offs are on. This season I am hoping for the classic, 'old firms' struggles.
Like Knicks vs. Celtics which is unfortunately probably (practically) gonna end tonight, or Bulls vs. Celtics which is hopefully coming in a couple of weeks.
Rose vs. Rondo, just imagine that.

This picture is from the LOC archive. It was taken in the year 1960 by Wm. C. Greene for New York World-Telegram.
The caption says: Celtic star Bob Cousy dribbling basketball the length of the court, outrunning N.Y. Knick's rookie, Bob McNeil, during game.

From Garibaldi to Centrale

2011-04-17T12:51:00.000-07:00

Accidental double exposures from a good good night.

Some Things Never Change

2011-04-16T15:18:00.000-07:00

Na przykład stylówa wuefistów.
Na 1:00 zaczyna się najlepsze - przewrót w przód na skrzyni.

NO AGE!

2011-04-15T07:21:00.001-07:00

Dzisiaj w Warszawie w Powiększeniu, jutro w Krakowie w Łaźni Nowej.
Szczegóły u Front Row Heroes. A na plakacie moje zdjęcie, nogi Cypriana i literki mojego brata.

Sokół i Marysia

2011-04-09T10:36:00.000-07:00

My promo shoot for their upcoming LP.
Appears there is something universal about hugs.

Michael, Marcin, Steve

2011-04-09T09:56:00.000-07:00

Monika has bought me "Half Life" from Michael Ackerman. I am loving this book, it's even better than "Fiction".
I am far from taking this kind of images but I think there's something good about them.
'Good" as in 'good vs. evil'. I like this goodness.

And then Marcin Gortat broke his nose on Steve Nash's back and they gave this hilarious video interview.
I made a screenshot and I found these images to have a lot in common.

Gli Alinari

2011-04-09T09:41:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to Genova, again. I was taking pictures, none of them half as good as this one from Fratelli Alinari.

Na wyścigach wyścigowych

2011-04-04T12:50:00.000-07:00

W nowym "Playboyu", na rozpoczęcie sezonu, robiony jesienią materiał o służewieckich dżokejach.
Nie o zakładach i "klimacie", ale o dżokejach, dżokejkach i romantycznym wyścigowym backstage'u.
Trzeba było wstawać bardzo wcześnie, ale lubię tak pracować. Po prostu robić proste zdjęcia.
Nigdy wcześniej nie fotografowałem koni, są bardzo fotogeniczne.
Tekst reportażu Dominik Rutkowski.

An outtake from a little reportage about jockeys from the Warsaw's Służewiec racing track that I did for the Polish edition of "Playboy" magazine.
I had to wake up really early a couple of times but it was worth it. I simply love taking this kind of simple pictures.
I had never photographed horses before, they are very photogenic.

Nouveau Western

2011-04-03T15:38:00.000-07:00

Salve Sig.ra

2011-04-03T14:54:00.000-07:00

An outtake/test shot from a thing that is going on.

Jak Bob Dylan

2011-03-31T12:53:00.000-07:00

Kanikuły Bonifacego

2011-03-27T14:51:00.000-07:00

Lew Bonifacy Fiodora Khitruka rozszarpał mnie na strzępy. Dzięki Franio!
Zdjęcia niedługo. Bez zdjęć też bywa dobrze.

Russian animation marvel from the 60's.
Bonifacy the Lion from Fyodor Khitruk is the real king of the jungle.
Pictures coming one day soon.