The best jazz photography in Poland
Legendary musician Frank Zappa once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Is it the same with photography? The winners of the photographic competition by Marek Karewicz, MK JAZZ FOTO, prove that music is worth photographing.
Once I tried to write about music myself, but I soon realized that Zappa was right. And I took for photographing music. Photos from concerts are not the same as the experience of the live performance itself. However, it is much closer to them. We will find lots of energy, emotions and passion on good concert cages. You can feel the mood reflecting the atmosphere of the evening. Good concert photographers are able to find unusual frames in quite predictable and roughly reproducing repetitive conditions, having only 5, 10, and sometimes 15 minutes for photos.
The Polish master of such photography is Marek Karewicz
Marek Karewicz is such Miles Davis Polish music photographers. When other photographers were tired of performing dozens of photos under the stage, he came and in a few minutes I made better frames than others during the entire concert. By the way, Davis himself, his own portrait by Marek, ordered to enlarge to a size of 3 by 10 m and hang on one of New York's high-rise buildings.
Karewicz accompanied Ray Charles for two years, who recognized that the Pole had taken the best picture he had ever seen. He captured Dave Brubeck at Chopin's piano, The Rolling Stones in the Congress Hall. He photographed the greatest stars of jazz music, creating a real archive of jazz history in Poland. His archive has nearly 2 million negatives. This is the legendary creator of covers for thousands of albums, alpha and omega of Polish jazz, a unique character and the soul of the musical world.
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Marek Karewicz died in Warsaw on June 22, 2018 at the age of 80. He was buried on July 2 accompanied by the volleys of Kompania Honorowa WP and a bunch of New Orleans themes performed by Zbyszek Namysłowski and Warsaw Dixielanders.
Almost a year after the death of this artist, we met the laureates of the unique photographic competition named after Marek Karewicz MK JAZZ FOTO
It is impossible to forget about the work of Marek Karewicz. In order to remember and inspire more generations of photographers about him, the JAZZ NAD ODRA Foundation brought into being the contest of his name - MK JAZZ FOTO .
Out of 321 photographs sent by 121 authors, the jury composed of Paweł Brodowski, Andrzej Dąbrowski, Henryk Malesa, Grzegorz Mieczkowski, Agnieszka Sobczyńska, Katarzyna Stanny, Joanna Stoga and Andrzej Tyszko chose 33 works for the finals. The jury of the foundation, composed of Marek Dudek, Grzegorz Mieczkowski, Wojciech Siwek and Maria Wesołowska, chose laureates of special prizes: for the best analogue photography and the best one made during the Jazz nad Odrą Festival. The head of the competition is Grzegorz Mieczkowski, and curator Lech Basel (father, you have +10 to face!).
The results of the first edition of MK JAZZ FOTO
Grand Prix
2nd prize
3rd prize
Special prize for analog photography
Special prize for the best photo taken during the Jazz nad Odrą Festival
Congratulations to the winners and all finalists of the competition! All highlighted photographs can be viewed on the contest website and during the exhibition in Wroclaw's ImparT until May 5 this year.
The best jazz photography in Poland
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