Negative photography

Marta Janiak, Poland

Photographic experiment I have always been attracted to transformations of reality, giving things - it would seem - long known and named (and therefore obvious and banal), another dimension, a second life in Unrealness and Abstraction. The inclination to experiment, or so-called inventing, has accompanied me since childhood. They went hand in hand with the spectacle played out at dusk: light and shadow, movement with a gust of wind, an image blurred by rain, a moving silhouette of a passer-by. A show that stimulates imagination and emotional feeling. And so it has remained. The experiment seems more interesting than convention, it promises an adventure with the unknown, with surprise. A creative act enclosed in an image, the ambiguity of which encourages the recipient to individual interpretation and contemplation of the photograph. Searching for aesthetic, emotional or impossible meaning. Any conscious imperfections of the technique used for taking photos, such as: overexposure or underexposure are an asset and language of artistic expression. Motion photography, which is my favorite type of photography - is to some extent a photography of accidents, a specific recording of emotions. An image painted with light, time and movement. A mixture of colors, interpenetrating planes, often fused into random combinations. The use of long exposure gives the image a painterly quality and the multiplication of movement creates a story that makes the photographed world unreal. Instead of a faithful reproduction of reality, a specific narrative is created that draws the viewer into the unreal plot of the real world. The effects visible in the photos such as: shifts, blending, disappearance, movement, interpenetration of planes or multiplication of objects, are not the result of computer manipulation, but a resultant of: the movement of objects and figures, the interpenetration and fusion of colors, random combinations of different planes.