Witek Orski

is a Polish photographer born 1985 in Warsaw. Orski studied Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, and Photography at the University of the Arts in Poznań. He is also a lecturer at the Art Academy of Szczecin. Along with Janek Zamoyski, in 2010 Orski launched the independent photography gallery Czułość in Warsaw. He lives and works in Warsaw.

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White Balance

“White Balance” by Witek Orski, seeks to expose, by way of the senses, that there is no such thing as a single shade of white, a single model that could be set in contrast to that which is considered by the majority as ‘the other’.

Witek Orski

I would prefer not to talk about this

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I would prefer not to talk about this

One of the first pieces I intended to make for this exhibition was a very large photograph of a field of rapeseed spreading across the horizon. The inspiration came from an old wives’ tale that scolded children for looking at a flowering field of rapeseed in the sun. They say that a person can be blinded by looking at bright yellow rapeseed in the stark glare of the sun. I enjoyed the suggestion of visual violence that this phrase carried with it.

Witek Orski