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BIFA 2024

Stranger

  • Photographer
    Monika Wanat

The artwork is a part of "Psyche" series. The basis of my creative work is the belief that both people and animals are persons. Animals, just like people, have the right to a soul, they feel, they have their own character and personality. I try to capture these accidental meetings. Portraited person is a person with whom I am separated on a daily basis by enormous geographical distances. And maybe there’s something sad in it that we can’t get to know each other better, or maybe there’s something beautiful in that we met at all.

Born in 1991 in Warsaw. Artist, photographer and scientist. Since 2014 she has been taking photos in the “Psyche” series. In 2022, a separate series “Not for us” was created. She has photographed in over thirty countries, the most important of which are Namibia, Oman and Chile. She has been awarded “Silver Winner” in New York Photography Awards 2023, “Honorable Mention” in Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023, and participation in post-competition exhibition “Etnoklimaty” in Etnographic Museum, Torun, Poland.