If you don’t know yet, there is an
Olivia Photography Club in the Olivia
Centre. Photo sessions, webinars, workshops and all kinds of artistic challenges are the club’s offer for everyone who would like to explore the secrets of photography with Olivia. Last year, members of the club were the authors and co-organizers of as many as 5 exhibitions presented in the lobby of Olivia Star. They used the knowledge gained during workshops with experts to amaze the effect of their creative work – places, events, and people captured in the frames. Together with them, we invited residents and residents of the Tri-City to the exhibitions “Gdańsk Unobvious”, “Good Tony: Meet Olivia’s Choir”, “Sea You” (reportage photography), “Olive in Olivia” (landscape photography), “12 Shades of Olivia” (architecture photography).
Together with the Club, we would like to invite you to a photography workshop with Piotr Połoczański: Gdańsk Photojournalist. The number of places is limited, the event is ticketed.
15.11 | 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Krypton in O4 Coworking
Day 1
(I’ll see you in the Krypton room in Olivia Four, so it’s going to be intimate and relaxed, and at the same time a lot of specifics and solid knowledge)
How to be a good photojournalist? What do you need to know, do, have? Advice, hints, tips, anecdotes.
A story about the art of photojournalism and the work of a photojournalist in the press office of the Mayor of Gdańsk.
Photojournalism techniques, necessary equipment, everyday life.
- Presentation of photos and anecdotes from the Tri-City reporter scene.
- Photographic equipment. A photojournalist’s must-have.
- Lenses and accessories.
- Clothing, harnesses.
- Extras in the form of electronics for fast shipment of material.
- Photo editing – an overview of the basics.
Day 2
(date, place, time to be agreed with Piotr Połoczański)
- Working together with workshop participants
- Fieldwork during the event [do ustalenia wydarzenie]
- Simulation of cooperation with the editorial office [forma rozrywkowa]
Evaluation of works: after individual contact with the teacher.
Piotr Połoczański
A photographer associated with Gdańsk, whose heyday he has been documenting in his work for over 20 years, focusing on Nowy Port – the district where he has lived since birth. His photo archive is a kind of “sociological record” of the urban fabric. The main forms of Piotr Połoczański’s work are portraiture and reportage, and the dominant theme is the life of the inhabitants of his beloved city. What is characteristic of Piotr Połoczański’s photography is the combination of trust of the photographed persons and the artist’s discretion, manifested in the form of reportage that dominates his works. One of the effects of his work is a series of suggestive portraits of the inhabitants of Gdańsk, which he has been carrying out for years.
Since 2002 he has been a member of the Gdańsk Photographic Society. In 2012, he won an award in the “Gdańsk Press Photo” competition in the Culture category. The documentary nature of the author’s long-term work was summed up during his first exhibition in 2013 at the Centre for Contemporary Art “Łaźnia II” entitled “2.28 km2”. From 2013 to 2019, he was the Photographer of the Mayor of Gdańsk – Paweł Adamowicz. In the years 2020-2021, he was the Photographer of the Mayor of Gdańsk Aleksandra Dulkiewicz. He cooperates with the Pomeranian Marshal’s Office. The result of the Photographer’s cooperation with the authorities of the City of Gdańsk is a pandemic calendar depicting the Gdańsk Heroes of that time, in which the portrayed people were immortalized by the artist.
