Loaded with Testosterone: Warsaw Photo Days 2015

Warsaw Photo Days Festival of Photography was founded in 2013 at the initiative of the Warsaw District of the Association of Polish Art Photographers ZPAF that is simultaneously an organizer of the event.

The third edition of the festival will be held in November 2015 and will be wrapped around the theme of TESTOSTERON. The Main Programme in Warsaw galleries will feature thirteen individual projects selected through a competition addressed to visual artists. The main plot of the show is aimed to visually analyze and put the idea of masculinity into question.

Warsaw Photo Days 2015
Testosterone, as understood broadly, can be used under the theme of the contest, as an intellectual shortcut, is identified with the life force of the human species that drives the pace of men’s and women’s life. It is a subject to constant revisions by civilization and society, in both physical and mental sphere, and is being redefined by successive generations and expressed in many ways. The projects selected and included in the programme are supposed to help us to familiarize ourselves with the ways of photographic depiction of contemporary archetypes of masculinity - its attributes, strengths and vulnerabilities.

We asked Katarzyna Majak, from the jury panel and a person behind the festival, to share her view on the theme of the festival, artists selected and their work:

KM: We live in the times of crisis of the narrative. This statement is probably not particularly revealing, though still surprising may be tracking the variety of its consequences. This is where, I think, crucial artistic discourse of this year's Warsaw Festival of Photography plays out.


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