transfotografia 2011 and michał szlaga

My foreign friend who has been living in Gdańsk for a year now, told me once that before he came here all that came to mind when he thought of Gdańsk, was Gdańsk Shipyard (Stocznia Gdańsk).



Photograph © Michał Szlaga [source]
We cannot deny that Gdańsk Shipyard is an important place on the map of Poland. Now you have a chance to have a closer look at what is happening there nowadays. All you have to do is visit PiTiPa Gallery on 21 Ogarna Street, where an exhibition, Fotografa romans ze Stocznią / A Photographer's Love Affair with the Shipyard, by Gdańsk photographer Michał Szlaga is taking place.







Michał Szlaga is a Gdańsk photographer, who has his studio in Gdańsk Shipyard. He has been documenting the shipyard for a long time, capturing the process of changes that is now taking place there. He also portrays the people who still work in the shipyard and who were once participants of the Solidarity movement. His photographs are very suggestive. It is worth taking a look at a timelapse video displayed on a small screen, which shows the working shipyard. One may have an impression that it resembles a giant robot devouring the rubble.

Photograph © Michał Szlaga [source]

The exhibition is a part of Transfotografia 2011 Photography Festival. A Photographer's Love Affair with the Shipyard will be on show until the 20th of November. The gallery is open from Wednesday to Friday from 3pm - 7pm and from Friday to Sunday from 12pm - 5pm.

text © Natalia Wiśniewska/ibloggdansk.blogspot.com