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Tomasz Gudzowaty. Keiko
ISBN: 9783775735216
(HB - E)
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New publication by the 2012 World Press Photo Award prize winner.
Photographic essay on work, dedication, and deprivation of choice.
Tomasz Gudzowaty (*1971 in Warsaw) is one of the preeminent photographers in Poland today. His medium is film-based black and white photography, which places a premium on what is disappearing and falling into oblivion, casted into the margins, outside the mainstream. He focuses on human emotions, passions, and choices, and conveys his message through sublime, carefully thought, and highly aesthetic yet simple pictures. Keiko is a story about a place one of a kind in the world, and about people who made it like that. The artist documented the work and lives of ship scrappers in Chittagong, the second-largest city in Bangladesh, where thirty to forty percent of the seven hundred ocean-going ships taken out of service every year are scrapped. The book reminds that despite the progress of civilization, work can still be hard and physical, giving a means of earning a living, and, at the same time, exhausting people of their strength and energy to change the status quo.
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