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Silver 2023 Book / People

Skin

  • Photographer
    Izabela Lapinska
  • Agency / Studio
    Lodz Film School (pwsftvit)
  • Prize
    Silver in Book / People

The book Skin is the culmination of four photographic projects: Naked Face, Meristem, Biopsy and Autopsy. It is a summary of the penetration of the bodily shell, human tissue, but also animal and plant ones. A photographic search for common features of living and dead creatures reveals similarities in the structure of tissues and uncovers unusual structures and forms.The recipient of the book will find out about the uniqueness of the tissue coating living organisms. They will experience the beauty of natural skin and perceive a structural affinity that accounts for the unity of all organisms.

I am from Lodz in Poland. I am a professor in The Lodz Film School. In photography I am concerned with visualisation of feminine body, sensuality, eroticism, beauty, ugliness and exclusion. What is essential in my work is the delicate perception of body. Besides her photographic creation I am involved in writing critical literary texts concerning issues of body, obscenity, disability, based on film, photography, advertisements.