Side Effects | KACPER KOWALSKI in Moscow
Polish photographer Kacper Kowalski was supposed to be an architect, yet he turned to his two true passions: flying and photography. Both a pilot and a photographer, he takes unique control over each shot, capturing previously unseen natural environments and ordinarily inaccessible cityscapes. His series of works, such as Toxic Beauty, Flood from the Sky, Polish Autumn, have received numerous international awards. The exhibition showcases his most recent project Side Effects that was also published as the artist’s very first monograph.
Kacper Kowalski. Sun&Fun #20
Kacper Kowalski
Side Effects
December 9, 2015 – January 31, 2016
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow
PR Info _ Kacper Kowalski, born in 1977, was supposed to be an architect. Yet five years of studies and four of designing were more than enough for him. In 2006, he eventually quit his job and turned to his two true passions: flying and photography. Both a pilot and a photographer, he takes unique control over each shot, capturing previously unseen natural environments and ordinarily inaccessible cityscapes. The results are unreal, almost graphic images, which reveal patterns, symmetries, and asymmetries created by humans and nature. Views from the air reveal an impact of industry on the environment that is hard to see from the ground, as effluent leeches into the Polish landscape—coal ash (the waste that remains after coal is combusted, containing toxic heavy metals) from power stations, by-products of mining, emissions from chemical factories. What is the natural environment for humans? Is it an untouched, virgin landscape? Or is it a landscape that has changed, adapted to human needs?
Info + illus. courtesy The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography
