STUDIOS

If the reality doesn’t exist, which in some way was proved by the quantum experiment in Heriot-Watt University in 2019, so be it, we have our own way over it, we photograph to make it exist.

Photographic Document Studio specialises in educating students in a field of widely understood documental practice. The basic medium is photography, but we also incorporate film, audio registering together with the text.
Classes in the Studio are run as part of subjects such as:
Reportage and the Basics of Photographic Document
Photographic Document

Main lecturer(s)
Maciej Rawluk, PhD - University professor
Franciszek Ammer - MSc

Photographic Document Studio is a place of encounters of people who talk about individual attitudes towards reality, in respect to which we adapt a role of insightful and sensitive observers. In these observations a distinctive importance has the role of photography, which allows us to become a more active part of the process.
Work in the realm of photographic documents, where resigning from expression for the benefit of distance and objectivism is important and needed. In times when everyone is a photographer, and being an artist is an appealing but extremely risky choice, documental practice, although does not guarantee mercantile success, gives a certain guarantee. The guarantee that we do something that we understand, accept and know how to evaluate. Carrying out activities in the field of document we resign in some way from our own personal, individual artistic whims for the benefit of works, which we hope, are more of use.

A programme of subjects taught in classes in Photographic Document Studio are focused on certain elements:
• teaching students technical photographic skills
• the ability to use photography and other media in the production of reportage and documentary projects
• learning about a wide spectrum of documental realisation, both those permanently inscribed in the cultural history and contemporary ones.
• the ability to work with a photography series in the context of its publishing (exhibition, book, the internet)
• the development of one’s personality, sensitivity, skills allowing them to undertake independent artistic activity in the realm of the above mentioned programme.

• lectures with the elements of discussion
• term projects

• group projects

• workshops with invited guests
• open-air camps