PHOTOGRAPHY - an exhibition by Marcin Sauter

Marcin Sauter – photographer, director, cinematographer, resident of Bydgoszcz; member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers and the Polish Film Academy. Studied photography at the PWSFTviT in Lodz. Graduate and lecturer at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. In the 1990s, a photojournalist for “Gazeta Wyborcza”. He published photo essays in “Pozytyw” and “Magazyn Rzeczpospolitej” magazines. Photojournalist for the Polish Theater in Bydgoszcz. Author of about 20 individual photographic exhibitions, most recently at the State Art Gallery in Sopot, Gallery of Contemporary Art in Kolobrzeg, City Gallery in Cracow and Arsenal Gallery in Wroclaw. Director and cinematographer of more than 20 documentaries, including “Hakawati,” “La Machina” and “North of Calabria,” for which he has received some 40 film awards, including major prizes at film festivals including: Mexico City, Paris, Chicago, Vilnius, London, Kyiv, Belfast, Lisbon and Krakow. His film “Behind the Fence” was recognized in France as one of the 10 most outstanding short films of the last decade. In 2006, he received a congratulatory letter from the President of Poland for his film successes abroad. In 2017, at the 25th CAMERIMAGE International Festival of Cinematographers, his film “Zalanash” won the main prize among short works. In 2021, his first – as a director – feature film “The City” entered the screens.

The exhibition “Photography” was created from photographs taken between 2006 and 2021, in Poland and in many countries around the world, including: Armenia, Russia, USA, Guatemala, Belize, Italy, France, Belarus, Morocco, Syria and Lebanon. In Poland, it has already been presented in Warsaw, Legnica, Bydgoszcz and Olsztyn, among others. The exhibition at the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola was organized in cooperation with Zegart Agency.

The author about himself and the exhibition: I travel in search of tranquility. A special state of attention, concentration and reception of impressions. A beautiful feeling that I have lost in the course of my life, and which I find sometimes, somewhere far from home, before taking a picture. At the intersection of the fascination of what I see, the sense of loneliness necessary to see it, and the longing for an impossible to put together landscape in the back of my mind. The photographs in the exhibition mainly show places I find during my travels, related to my work as a documentary filmmaker. In moments stolen from my films.

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