Gabriela Koszycka is one of five recipients of the annual SFR Jeunes Talents Award, while Adam Pańczuk is running for the First PhotoBook Award.
Paris Photo is an event designed largely with the photographic industry in mind. During the fair, international galleries present works by their affiliated artists to a large crowd of curators, collectors, or other gallerists, all of whom take advantage of this opportunity for networking and exchange.
For the past few years, the event’s section devoted to photo publications has been gaining an increasing significance. This year, the First PhotoBook Award competition features among its 20 contestants a Polish documentary photographer Adam Pańczuk, with his self-published book Karczeby.
In 2013, only one of the exhibiting galleries comes from Poland. The Warsaw-based Asymetria gallery is going to present such classics as Jerzy Lewczyński, Zofia Rydet, Zygmunt Rytka, Wojciech Plewiński, Marek Piasecki, or Władysław Pawelec. The younger generation will be represented by Rafał Milach and Tomasz Szerszeń.
Two Polish artists – Katarzyna Mirczak and Paulina Ołowska – will be represented by galleries from other countries. The former will be exhibited by the Eric Franck Gallery from London, while the latter – by the New York-based Metro Pictures. Ołowska’s pieces will be exhibited next such names as Cindy Sherman or Tony Oursler; Eric Franck will show, apart from the works from the Polish author, photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka, or Heinz Hajek-Halke.
Each year, a "young talent" award is handed out at Paris Photo – the emerging artists selected for the prize get an opportunity to show their works at the fair. This year, the jury chose five winners out of 1026, one of whom is a Pole – Gabriela Kaszycka.
More information: www.parisphoto.com