Showing posts with label Kodak Tri-X. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kodak Tri-X. Show all posts

Friday, 18 May 2012

Jazz in the Potemkin




The concert was great, although I will never understand why gullible Westerners are so much fond of the Communist nomenclature...

Monday, 12 September 2011

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

End-of-Year Exhibition

This is an open invitation to a photography exhibition in Brussels. This year I am going to present a reportage which is a part of a documentary project devoted to Poland B and which shows pig slaughtering for domestic use in a village near Sandomierz - a small town in South East Poland. Intense aesthetic experience and a high artistic level guaranteed. Especially I would like to invite those of you who always wanted to know what a pig has got inside.

Saturday, 1 January 2011

Another Fire in Brussels 1



Another Fire in Brussels 2



The last days of 2010 saw another fire in my street. I was watching TV one December morning when I smelled smoke. It came from burning woods and I thought that I live in a district where people do their best so as to live close to nature. Only a few days earlier I hear a flock of hens cuckle, now I smelled smoke coming form a natural fire...and then all of a sudden the whole street was dark with smoke, I saw the lights of a fire brigade and I realised that the source of the smoke was not natural at all: down the street, only twenty metres away, a house was burning. I woke up my family and a friend of mine who was visiting us, we both grabbed our cameras and run out of the house - to check whether we would have to evacuate and to take some photos. My New Year's wish? May it never happen to any of us!

Saturday, 11 September 2010

Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский in Brussels: FED5



A few months ago a friend of mine gave me his FED5 for a test. I am always happy to work with vintage cameras so I went for a walk down my street. All in all, it was nice to shoot with FED5 although the camera is too cumbersome and inconvenient in use due to a very small viewfinder and a lack of a rewind knob. FED3 is much more better in terms of speed but certainly it also has got its disadvantages...read below:-)

Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский in Brussels: FED3



Last holidays I bought a FED3. I remember a friend of mine saying that in the 1980s many photographers and photography students would buy it because it was a direct copy of Leica and if you were lucky you could get a copy of very good quality. My father-in-law added: if you were lucky and they had not produced it during a night shift...apparently, I wasn't that lucky this time:-)