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Swell (last copy)

by Mateusz Sarello

Photographs: Mateusz Sarello

Text: Mateusz Sarello

Publisher: Instytut Kultury Wizualnej

Pictures: 14 colour illustrations and 26 black and white illustrations

Year: 2013

ISBN: 978-83-63025-16-8

Comments: first edition; limited print run: 350 copies, of which 300 numbered. no. 203/300, design by Ania Nalecka/TBD

“Swell” is a story of a break-up and of unaccepted loneliness. About going back to the same places and memories that we can’t forget. At first it was supposed to be a documentary project about the Baltic Sea. So a plan was drawn up, the form was thought through, and the places to be visited were marked on the map. The photographs came about during trips together. The last joint photo was taken a little later—and a portrait on a negative ruined by the lab technician. The project no longer mattered, and the outings to the sea were now only an escape from daily life. Over a dozen colour “postcards” have survived from the first trips. They are the beginning of this story. There is no end yet. We’re about half-way.

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