Kuba Dąbrowski started taking pictures as a fourteen-year-old, nineteen years ago. He photographed everything he found interesting in the world around him: his friends, the tower-block schemes of Białystok, music concerts, basketball and so on. Then he passed his high school exams, went to study sociology in another city, got his first job – and throughout this time he continued taking pictures. Today he is one of the best-recognised photographers of the young generation. Professionally, as he says, he photographs ‘sometimes Afghanistan and sometimes lipsticks for Chanel’, but he has never stopped documenting his surroundings.
The exhibition catalogue “A Drama Feature Film of Polish Production” is an attempt to confront a huge collection of (largely analogue) photographs. These tell a personal story of the author, his habitat, friends, family, his favourite movies, music and sports. The story unfolds from a primary-school scuffle to the author’s changing his baby son’s diapers in a car, but there is no chronological order here. Still, despite appearing loose and open to the viewer’s imagination, the narrative is precise, the order of the images dictated by their message or mood, with the neighbouring photos sometimes explaining or counterpointing each other, whereas the largest-format ones do not necessarily mark any turning points.
graphic design:Edgar Bąkeditor: Joanna Kinowskapublisher: Zachęta - National Gallery of Art
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