Marcin Seweryn Andrzejewski - Roadsides Scens 011

Rare contemporary calotype by Polish photographer Marcin Seweryn Andrzejewski (b. 1977), one of the most consistent practitioners of historical and alternative photographic processes in Central Europe.

Technique: Calotype (paper negative process)

Image size: 16 × 20.5 cm

Paper: Handmade paper

Mount: 30 × 40 cm passe-partout and wooden frame

Signature: Signed on the front and on the back

Condition: Excellent, no creases or stains

Marcin Seweryn Andrzejewski (1977) – A native of Drezdenko, he has been a member of GTF since 1993 and Association of Polish Art Photographers since 2001. Studied at the Department of Phototechnics at Wrocław University of Technology, graduated from the Higher School of Photography in Jelenia Gora, together with Cezary Tymczuk formed the AT group within which they realized pinhole photography. Multiple participant in the Annual Photography Exhibitions and Photography Confrontations (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2010). He was also a juror at the Annual Photography Exhibitions and Photo Confrontations.
He began his artistic career by taking staged photographs in which he contrasted models with degraded and often post-industrial architecture. In these photographs he often used negative montage and hand-colored prints with Ecoline water-based inks. Further fascinations and technical experiments concerned the rubber technique and its various modifications. These interests were partly conditioned by the fact that he took his first artistic steps under the tutelage of the great rubberist Piotr Perczynski in the photographic section of the Municipal House of Culture in Drezdenko. Later, under the influence of, among others, his acquaintance with Andrzej Jerzy Lech, he began to practice pinhole and contact photography. His fascination with the latter was fostered by the contact he established during his studies with the Lower Silesian environment centered around Wojciech Zawadzki and Ewa Andrzejewska, outstanding representatives of the so-called pure photography (also referred to as elementary photography). Marcin Andrzejewski invariably valued the perfect technical workshop, he remained faithful to the advanced traditional ways of processing photography. At present, he primarily focuses on taking large-format camera photographs of architecture captured during his numerous travels.
Individual exhibitions:
1996 – Warszawa, Galeria WIPH,
1996 – Gorzów Wlkp., Mała Galeria GTF,
2000 – Wrocław, Piwnica Stanczyka,
2001 – Krasiczyn, Galeria ARP,
2001 – Gorzów Wlkp, Mała Galeria GTF,
2002 – Gorzów Wlkp, Mała Galeria GTF,
2002 – Ostrowiec Świetokrzyski, Galeria Browar,
2003 – Jelenia Góra, Galeria Korytarz,
2004 – Groningen, Light Zone,
2004 – Wrocław, Galeria ARP,
2010 – Gorzów Wlkp., Mała Galeria GTF,
2011 – Szczecin, Top Art Gallery,
2012 – Aleppo, Le Pont Gallery,
2017 – Gorzów Wlkp, Mała Galeria GTF,
2018 – Songzhuang International Photo Biennale,
2019 – Gorzów Wlkp, Mała Galeria GTF,
2019 – Jelenia Gora, Galeria Korytarz,
2022 – Gorzow Wlkp, Stowarzyszenie Uniwersytetu Trzeciego Wieku,
2022 – Gorzów Wlkp, Mała Galeria GTF,
2024 – Gorzów Wlkp, Mała Galeria GTF,
2024 – Jelenia Góra, Galeria Korytarz