Touch

• Prize
  Silver in Fine Art/Other
• Photographer
  Łukasz Ułanowski, Poland
• Date of Photograph
  2025 - 2026
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/lukasz.ulanowski/

Touch is a photographic project about confronting inner states as they surface, like touching something unknown in nature, knowing darkness comes before form. It unfolds between impulse and control, reaction and restraint. Darkness is not a backdrop, but a condition: a space where orientation is uncertain and perception slows down. Shadows mark what resists articulation. Grounded in behavioral observation, the work follows repeated gestures and conditioned responses. Touch remains with the body, where awareness forms gradually, under pressure, without light as reassurance.

Lukas Ulanowski, Poland25 years oldŁukasz Ułanowski (1991)
A graduate of the Fototechnical at the School of Chemical them. Ignacy Łukasiewicz in Bydgoszcz, a graduate of Cultural Studies University of Economy in Bydgoszcz with a specialization in photography and multimedia technologies. The former coordinator of creative photographic space in the Museum of Photography in Bydgoszcz.

Awards Honorable Mentions in ND Awards 2016, Honorable Mentions in International Photography Awards 2016, Honorable Mention in Fine Art Photography Awards 2015, 3rd place in International Photographer Of The Year 2015, Honorable Mention in Neutral Density Photography Awards 2015, Laureate of procject DEBUTS 2015 by doc! photomagazine, The winner of the nationwide photo contest: Photo Grants Challange organized by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development of Poland, Receiving two scholarships for people involved in artistic creativity and the dissemination of culture in Bydgoszcz city.