Swell

• Prize
• Photographer
  Mateusz Sarello, Poland
• Website
  http://www.mateuszsarello.com

"Swell"
hand made book, numbered copies
88 pages, 42 pictures
hard cover, 172 x 207 mm
photographs: Mateusz Sarello
text: Kuba Rubaj & Mateusz Sarello
curator & photo edition: Michal Luczak
design: Ania Nalecka/Tapir Book Design
edition: 350 copies
publisher: Instytut Kultury Wizualnej
Warsaw 2013
ISBN 978-83-63025-16-8

"Swell" is a story of a break-up and of unaccepted loneliness. About going back to the same places and memories that we can't forget. At first it was supposed to be a documentary project about the Baltic Sea. So a plan was drawn up, the form was thought through, and the places to be visited were marked on the map. The photographs came about during trips together. The last joint photo was taken a little later-and a portrait on a negative ruined by the lab technician. The project no longer mattered, and the outings to the sea were now only an escape from daily life. Over a dozen colour "postcards" have survived from the first trips. They are the beginning of this story. There is no end yet. We're about half-way.

• Biography
  Mateusz Sarello born in 1978 in Warsaw. Member of mentoring program â??Masterclassâ?? 5klatek Academy. Graduate of Annual Photojournalism Workshop in Academy of Photography. Participated in workshops organized by Napo Images agency. Member of Spoldzielnia Dokumentalna (Documentary Association). Awarded and honored on many occasions i.e. PDN Photo Annual 2011, Prix de la Photographie Paris 2011, International Photography Awards 2009 and 2010, FotoVisura Grant 2010. Lucie Foundation Scholarship 2011 and Grand Press Photo 2010 finalist.
• Awards
  Mateusz Sarello was born in 1978 in Warsaw. A Graduate from the Academy of Photography in Warsaw. Member of the Napo Images agency (Napo Mentor Program). He is the author of the book „Swell”, which was chosen as a finalist in the Best Photography Book Award at Pictures of the Year International and in the Photographic Publication of the Year at the Fotofestiwal in Lodz in 2014, won 3rd prize at the International Photography Awards in 2013 and was chosen for „Best Books of 2013” list by Photo-Eye. His awards and distinctions include the Center Santa Fe Awards, the Lucie Foundation Scholarship, the FotoVisura Grant, the PDN Photo Annual, the FotoWeekDC International Awards, the Prix de la Photographie Paris, the International Photography Awards and the International Photography Festival Organ Vida Prize. A finalist of the Lens Culture Exposure Awards and Grand Press Photo, he has exhibited at the Chobi Mela International Fesitval of Photography in Bangladesh and at the FotoWeekDC in Washington, the Museum of Municipal Engineering in Krakow (Photomonth in Krakow), the Karas Gallery in Zagreb (International Photography Festival Organ Vida), the Pauza Gallery in Krakow, the Museum of Printing in Warsaw, the Leica Gallery in Warsaw, the Obok ZPAF Gallery in Warsaw, the Gallery of Photography in Dublin, the Gallery Nine in Belfast and Splashlight Studios in New York. Publication credits include Lens Culture, GUP Magazine, Foto8, PDN – Photo District News, Blow Magazine, Archivo Magazine, Der Greif Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, Prism Magazine, Exklusiv Magazine, 5klatek, Doc! Photo Magazine and Private Photo Review.