Zamknięte/Closed

• Prize
• Photographer
  Tomasz Gotfryd, Poland
• Studio
  www.tomaszgotfryd.com

The ‘Closed’ art book summarizes the 3-years documentary project dealing with decay,
transience of human artifacts and emptiness. The project, realized in Poland, focused on
abandoned and derelict sites, such as houses, palaces, hospitals, prisons, either
beautiful or dark, empty shells forgotten by former inhabitants. There is often some
mystery surrounding such places which keeps them uninhabited. ‘Closed’ may be perceived as
a peculiar visual guidebook presenting the places which, nearly absent from maps,
gradually fall prey to decay.
All pictures taken in Poland.
book hard covered / 130sites / 70pictures

• Awards
  Award in Grand National Geographic Contest 2015 in Ixperia Art movie category . First prize in Feature shoot international contest - Abandoned places 2014 2 Nominations in the Grand Press Photo 2013/2015 Second prize in the News Feature category for a series of culture - Venomous