Imprisoned in Art

• Photographer
  Anna B. Gregorczyk, Poland
• Studio
  FOTOARCHITEKTURA
• Website
  http://annagregorczyk.com
• Instagram
  @anka.gregorczyk

'Imprisoned in Art' is the project about prisoners being actors, about
playing different and uncommon roles in our lives. I try to see and
show prisoners as actors in the theater of hard life; during the photo
session (just after the show) I try to "extract" the role from the
personality of the prisoner but eventually the actor become the
prisoner and it is just not possible to separate those two roles from
each other. Actors are the prisoners from different prisons in Poland,
some of the prisoners were convicted for self-defense (woman who
killed her husband after being hurt with hot oil) or for 'hit and run' car
accident. Stories behind those people are cruel but it is not so easy to
judge them if you can see them only as the actors. You can see only
their emotions and fear, sometimes hope and dreams. I took pictures
in 2014 and 2015 - just after shows in theaters that took place in
Poznan (Poland) during National Competition Prison Theatrical Work.

Freelance photographer based in Poland. Member of the The Association of Polish Art Photographers and The Association of Polish Architects. Focused on modern urban landscape and visual reinterpretation of the human space. Her artistic interests are directed towards architectural and new documentary photography. Initiator, creator and president of FOTSPOT. Together with Łukasz Szamałek they create photographic duo.

Awards 2018 - I-st award - Wielkopolska Press Photo 2018
2018 - Special Price - My Wielkopolska 2018
2018 - Gold Award - Moscow International Foto Awards 2018, Moscow, Science (other) Professional Category
2017 - EASTREET 4
2017 - III-rd Award - Monochrome Photography Awards - photomanipulation professionals category, London
2016 - III-rd Award - XVII International Biennial of Landscape Photography - Space Definition, Kielce, 2016
2014 – II award - My Wielkopolska 2014
2012 - finalist of „Photoboite’s 30 UNDER 30” for women photographers, Paris/ New York

www.annagregorczyk.com