'Outside', a series of seaside landscapes, originated in my fascination with emptiness and areas of transition, places on the edge. The photographs are formally very simple, geometry permeates them, strong drive towards symmetry is clearly visible. Everything seems so orderly, but this reality slips away from us, we cannot grasp it. Tension between ordering and disintegration is very strong. Although there are no people in the pictures, this series tries to portray human experience, human condition.
'Outside' depicts places on the edge of land and sea, natural and human/urban environment. It shows how these two worlds pervade each other. It reveals complicated processes of encroachment, intrusion.
I am interested not only in this what is located within the frame, but also (maybe even more) in this what is o u t s i d e, in the uncapturable, intangible, slippery. The vital part of the series are interpictorial relations, a silent dialogue between the photographs.
All pictures were taken on the coast of Poland.
Adam Biernat (b. 1985) is a starting out fine art photographer based in Gdynia, Poland. He is self-taught and began to photograph only recently, exactly in 2013. He studied architecture (Gdansk University of Technology) and history of art (Gdansk University). His major accomplishments include second prize in Prix de la Photographie Paris 2014 and being a finalist in 2nd Triennale of Pomeranian Art.
In his work, he focuses on seemingly insignificant, negligible moments/objects/places. He closely observes the mundane. With his camera he always tries to look beyond the surface and beyond the literal, to dig into reality and in a way reveal the hidden. Silence intrigues him. His images are full of semi-whisper, contemplative qualities. They are definitely closer to a subtle piano sonata than to a grand symphonic piece. What interests him most, is confronting the descriptive precision of the medium with the intangible.
Adam is an avid traveler. Because of his fascination with faraway places in the north, he has lived for some time in Norwegian Lapland and Iceland. He shares his enthusiasm for Iceland on a blog Bite of Iceland (www.biteoficeland.com), which he co-runs. Apart from the far north, he is strongly attracted to Asia and the eastern fringes of Europe. Although travelling inspires him a lot, he is not the one who has to go miles away to photograph. In fact, he loves working in his own backyard as well.
