Below you can find interventions into my book - Râsu'-plânsu' (Laughing through tears) made by Bartosz Nowicki.
Bartosz Nowicki is a Polish photographer, storyteller, curator, and researcher based in New Tredegar, South Wales. Links:
Bartosz Nowicki’s website and blog
“Holding the book in my hands, I realised I didn’t want to do anything drastic – I wanted to keep it as it was. Instead of pasting, glueing, and cutting, I thought I could create an exercise in visual dialogue with ‘Râsu’-plânsu’ by using images from ‘Between Hours’. It felt like the right thing to do. In the end, each of us, separately, as native Polish speakers, photographed the home we chose rather than the one we were born into. Aga shot in Romania, and I in Wales. We both took our pictures while walking to work. We made conscious artistic interventions because, I am guessing for Aga, and speaking for myself, we needed to break the pressures of everyday life through creation. Enacting what Cornel West would call a moment of disruption, a moment of resistance. This is my dialogue with Aga’s work. My temporary intervention.” Visit his blog to learn more about the idea behind the interventions featured in this book (direct link here).
