The Photographs Have Been Taken in Szopienice

By Jacek Lidwin

I’m going, I walking to look... I meet faces. They say to me. Everyone has a face, everyone has a story. Do you want to steal our faces? - The elderly couple jokingly asked me. Maybe that's what I'm doing - stealing faces?

Szopienice is a Katowice district, the city on the upper Silesia, in Poland. To 1960 it was independent. Szopienice was founded as a village in 1360 and it was developed in the second half of the nineteenth century around the metallurgy industry. The civic rightist was given to it in 1951.
Upper Silesia to the thirteenth century, was part of the Polish. From the XIV it was in the Czech Crown. In 1742, it moved for the most part to the Prussia. Since 1870, together with Prussia have been it in the German Reich. In 1922, the south-eastern part of Upper Silesia with Szopienice was incorporated to the Polish. 1945 - Upper Silesia is in Polish and Czechoslovak borders.

I photographed Szopienice in the spring of 2003. Suggested me to do an exhibition in the local community center. As its subject I chose the people from the streets of the district of Katowice. I was rather well received. No one was aggressive towards me, but not always my job was accepted. The first pictures I did in March 2003, finished in May. The exhibition took place in June.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jacek Lidwin
• Release date: Feb 27, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301555277

Jacek Lidwin

Jacek Lidwin (b. 1965 in Sosnowiec). Lives in Bieszczady Mountains and Katowice in Poland. A visual artist - photographer and book designer. He creates documentary and landscape projects, as well as portraits and theatrical and fashion photography projects. He has visual arts scholarships from the Polish Minister of Culture and the Self-government of the Silesian Voivodeship. He has exhibited his works in many galleries, including the gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Archdiocesan Museum in Katowice, as well as in shopping malls and cultural centers. His books are available on Amazon and other big bookstores.Scholarships:Scholarships from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage:2018 – Forgotten lives – photographic project2012 – Simply Stories – photographic projectScholarships from the Silesian Voivodeship Self-Government in Poland:2014 – Ecce Homo – photographic project about homeless people2011 – A photo album about theater festivals A Part 1998-20112008 – Fragments of Ancient Names – Jewish cemeteries in Silesian Voivodeship – photographic projectScholarship from the Polish Society of Authors and Composers ZAiKS:2021 – Grey Bieszczady – photographic projectIndividual exhibitions in Katowice in Poland2011 / 2012 – Presentation of the book about the theatre festival A Part2011 – Fragments of Ancient Names – Jewish cemeteries2010 – Packaging for the People – fashion photography2009 – Unknown People – street photography2009 – Human, space, light – theatrical photography2008 – Unknown People – street photography2003 – The Photographs That Were Taken in Szopienice – street photographyPrint on demand books in Amazon:Caryńskie Valley: Landscape and Nature Photo Book – 2020Jaworzec – Forest in the Fog: Landscape and Nature Photo Book – 2020Forest by the Road – Wetlina: Landscape and Nature Photo Notebook – 2020Through the Wetlinska Polonyna: Landscape and Nature Photo Notebook – 2020The Photographs Have Been Taken in Szopienice – 2020in the dark, in the light, leaving time behind – 2012Unknown People – 2012Faces in the Dark – 2012E-books:Caryńskie Valley : Landscape and Nature Photo Book – 2020Jaworzec – Forest in the Fog: Landscape and Nature Photo Book – 2020Forest by the Road – Wetlina: Landscape and Nature Photo Notebook – 2020Through the Wetlinska Polonyna: Landscape and Nature Photo Notebook – 2020Hourglass – 2014The Photographs Have Been Taken in Szopienice – 2013Gesture and Motion – 2013in the dark, in the light, leaving time behind – 2012Unknown People – 2012Faces in the Dark – 2012My website:http://jaceklidwin.comMy books on Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Jacek-Lidwin/e/B004WVO7M0%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_shareMy Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/jacek65/My twitter:https://twitter.com/JacekLidwinMy facebook:https://www.facebook.com/JacekLidwinPhotographyMy photos on Eyeem:https://www.eyeem.com/u/jacek65treet photography

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