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We share knowledge because we believe in the unlimited potential within each of us.

Przekrój (read: P-sheh-crooy) means “cross-section” in Polish and this word precisely describes what you will find here. We are interested in everything that makes us human and we like to publish articles about anthropology, psychology, and spirituality. When we write about the world (and the universe),

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On the Edge of Light and Shadow On the Edge of Light and Shadow
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Saul Leiter „Footprints”, ca. 1950 © Saul Leiter Foundation
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On the Edge of Light and Shadow

Wojtek Wieteska

The Saul Leiter exhibition at the FOAM photography museum has a lot to offer. Besides photos resembling paintings, and a slice of New York in the heart of Amsterdam, a reminder that in the age of digital overload, photography can still have a soul. 

As the first quarter of the twenty-first century draws to a close, we are approaching the bicentennial of the first image recorded using light: “View from the Window at Le Gras.” French physicist and inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce positioned his camera (a camera obscura loaded with a light-sensitive copper plate) through his studio window, aiming the lens at the interior courtyard of his home.  

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