300 Indian rupees is the cost of loading one full car of stones which were dug up in the riverbed. The bank of the river is a source of income for the unemployed men and women and also children. It attracts practically anyone who wants to avoid starvation.
Hard work is divided into concrete activities: digging up stones, separating sand, gravel, stones and boulders, cracking larger stones and boulders into smaller by means of anvil and finally landing stones on the truck. All these activities are risky, people are paying their health. The photos were made near Siliguri, India, 2017
Letta Sed (Wioletta Sedlak) received M.Sc from the Chemistry Department at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She is also a graduate of the Warsaw School of Photography and Graphic Design in Warsaw, Poland (2015), where she studied Photography. This studies gave her the opportunity to express herself through both fine art photography and visual art, as well as helped her develop herself in reportage and documentary photography.
Awards 2021
"perception" - London International Creative Competition (LICC), shortlist in the SHOOT (Photo/Video) category.
"flowers" - International Photography Awards (IPA), honorable mentioned in the Special, Smartphone Photography
"a gloomy day alone" - Fine Art Photography Award (FAPA), nominee in Abstract and Fine Art category
"divided 11/11" photography - Fine Art Photography Award (FAPA), nominee in Abstract category
"rumors on fire" photography- Fine Art Photography Award (FAPA), nominee in Photomanipulation category
2020
- "new (old) world" project - Paris Photo Prize (PX3), bronze in the nature/other category,
- "changed view of the sunrise" photography - International Photography Awards (IPA), honorable mentioned in the Fine Art: Other category,
- "woman" photography - Neutral Density Photography Awards, honorable mentioned in the Fine Art: Abstract category,
2019
- photo essay "art of Eight Limbs" - Budapest International Foto Awards - 2nd place in the Event category and Gold in the Event - Sport category
Group exhibition of all winners the of the 2019 edition Budapest International Foto Awards BIFA, Hybridart Space, Budapest (Hungary) 2019.
- "silent scream" photography - Neutral Density Photography Awards, honorable mentioned in the Fine Art: Photomanipulation category
2017
- photo essay "Whipping" - Neutral Density Photography Awards - honorable mentioned in the Special: photojournalism / story category
- "bluevision" photography - Neutral Density Photography Awards - honorable mentioned in the Fine Art: Other category
- photo essay „Happy" - International Photography Awards (IPA) - honorable mentioned in Non-Professional IPA 2017, People-Lifestyle and People-Family category
2015
- photo essay „Happy” 11th National Geographic Photography Competition in Poland - honorable mentioned in the photojournalism category
- Bialystok Interphoto Festival 2015 - group exhibition at the "Street Photo" exhibition
