First Prize, Industrial Traces
I’m deeply honored to share news - my project “Horizons of what remains” has been awarded First Prize in the international photography competition “Industrial Traces – Corporate Buildings in Contemporary Cities”, organized by the Bunge & Born Foundation.
The prize is even more special knowing that part of the jury were:
Rodrigo Abd (two times Pulitzer prize winner)
Fabio Bucciarelli (Robert Capa Gold Medal photojournalist)
Mariela Ceva, Director of the Bunge & Born Archive
Deeply grateful to the jurors for recognizing my work!
My photographs were selected among submissions from around the world and will be featured in the official catalog and the collective exhibition at the Bunge & Born Foundation building in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Photographs explore the industrial memory embedded in the urban landscapes of Bytom-Bobrek, Swietochlowice - Lipiny and Ruda Slaska—once among the most dynamic centers of European heavy industry. From the late 19th century onward, coal mines, coke plants, and steelworks transformed Silesia into a powerful industrial region, shaping not only the economy but also the architecture, culture, and social life of its cities.
After the economic transition of the 1990s, many of these structures fell silent. Mines were closed, coke plants dismantled, and slag heaps abandoned. Yet their monumental forms and workers' estates remain.
The series captures scenes such as: a miners’ housing estate near the former Bobrek plant, the black spoil heaps of Ruda Slaska, and the looming silhouette of the Bobrek coking plant. Some photographs were taken during the Corpus Christi procession, showing how these industrial landscapes remain intertwined with contemporary cultural and religious life.
