TUTORS
NAME AND SURNAMEFranciszek Ammer
DATE OF BIRTH1988
2014 Master’s degree
UNIVERSITY (DEPARTMENT)Lodz Film School (Faculty of Director of Photography)
SUPERVISORGrzegorz Przyborek prof.
An artist, a curator and an organisator of photo festivals. Before I started working on Fotofestival, where I was a member of the Programme Committee, I had co-created Wroclaw’s TIFF Festival and I have been involved in it until now. I have devoted a huge part of my work to bringing aspects of a photographic book closer to public attention and awareness in Poland. The arising interest of my endeavors with photobooks lead to exhibitions, lectures and cooperation with most prominent personas of the photography world related to photobooks’ publishing. I co-create Przestrzeń Robocza - a place of artistic experiments and a place for meetings with different artists from various artistic backgrounds. I am a member of the newly founded publishing collective as well as 19 Rzek - a Lodz space for creation and activities.
As an artist and a curator I’m interested in the boundaries between knowledge and imagination, at the meeting point of which myths, alternative systems of comprehension and conspiracy theories emerge. My diploma series Exclusion was nominated for the Poznan Photo Diploma Award in 2015. I have presented my works on many exhibitions such as: individual exhibition in Miejsce przy Miejscu art gallery in Wroclaw (Dolina, 2015). I was a curator of such exhibitions as Kino Utopia in BWA Wroclaw Glowny and Pokoje on Lodz Fotofestival.
PUBLICATIONS