Photography Studio

Diploma Studio

The aim of the studio is to develop in students the ability to effectively carry out original photographic projects oriented around two main directions in photography: staged photography and documentary photography. The strategy of staging is realized in a broad sense – from para-documentary activities, through classical object staging, to performative practices and multimedia recording. The emphasis is placed on the creative, broadly understood potential of the photographic medium, and its application across various areas of artistic activity.

Within the field of documentary photography, students are invited to reflect on their way of perceiving reality, going beyond mere factual recording. They are encouraged to combine attentiveness to the world with personal experience, creating visual narratives through photographic imagery.

Particularly intriguing is the interaction between the two styles – staging and documentary – which provides a wide field for experimental exploration.

The studio also emphasizes analysis and interpretation of photography, as well as theoretical reflection, both directly and indirectly related to the practical exercises undertaken by students.

The research and teaching activities of the studio are based on the assumption that photography is an open discipline, and its meaning is not confined to the boundaries defined by a strictly orthodox understanding of the medium. The studio develops in students the ability to use alternative photographic approaches, along with the conviction that all such approaches hold equal value. The choice of method is determined solely by its relevance to a given artistic undertaking or by the student’s individual inclination toward a particular mode of practice.

The studio includes a photographic laboratory (darkroom), where students are introduced to the techniques of analog photography.

Students also have the opportunity to pursue their interests within the student research group “Zakres Widzenia” (Range of Vision), under the academic supervision of Prof. Piotr Komorowski and Dr. Ewa Martyniszyn.

Subjects

• Artistic Photography

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  Applied and Documentary Photography

   

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  Photography

   

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  Fundamentals of Intermedia

  Graphics

• Fundamentals of Photography

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  Applied Photography (part-time studies)

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  Authorial Photography (part-time studies)

Admission

Basic skills in photographic techniques and digital image post-production.

Reading list

1. Władysław Strzemiński, Theory of Vision

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   Urszula Czartoryska, The Artistic Adventures of Photograph

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   Zbigniew Tomaszczuk, The Awareness of the Frame: Essays on the Aesthetics of Photography

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   Susan Sontag, On Photography

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   Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida