His so-far received awards, which are especially worth mentioning, are the following ones: Kreatura (Creature) award, which he won three times, in 1995, 2005 and 2006, Pinnacle DDB’98, Agfa Szansa Pro’98, Zlote Orly (Golden Eagles) 2000. The artist is the only Polish photographer chosen by Our Place to the cooperation in the accomplishment of the World Heritage series for UNESCO. Wojtek Wieteska has also co-produced many social campaigns, such as: Breast Friends of the Amazonka (Amazon) Foundation, A Pregnant Mother of the Sw. Mikolaja (Saint Nicolas’) Foundation, Lithuania of the Polish Humanitarian Action. The artist’s photographs can be found in many private collections in our country, and also in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Japan and The United States.
In frames of the individual exhibition of Wojtek Wieteska in Atlas Sztuki, we will show the pictures from years 1986-2013. The artist in 1985, after many years of living abroad, came back to Poland and a year after that, he started to take pictures. In a conversation with Barbara Piwowarska, Wojtek Wieteska speaks extensively about his life abroad, about his comeback and his experiences as a photographer who, in his Polish pictures, finds a memory about the pictures of completely different, absolutely dissimilar places. I really encourage you to read this conversation with the artist. I hope that you will be interested also in two essays about the project, written by a curator Adam Mazur and Krzysztof Varga – a prized prose-writer. I come from Poland. Which means from where? – the essay written by Krzysztof Varga and the one by a curator Adam Mazur are two different views at the project, the accomplishment of which took the artist over a quarter of a century.
The exhibition of Wojtek Wieteska: Jestem z Polski (I am from Poland), accompanies the 12th edition of the FotoFestiwal (Photo Festival) – the International Festival of Photography in Lodz. This is our third exhibition displayed within the Lodz FotoFestiwal.
I cordially invite you to Atlas Sztuki for a meeting with Poland seen with Wojtek Wieteska’s eyes.