60 COWS
When I was walking a long time ago through pasture I saw a herd of cows. The farmer told me, there were 60 of them. Next year I was in the same place again, the herd was gone.
Then I read about the new milking technology. 60 cows stand in boxes, in a circle, and the robots feed, milk and clean them. No contact with the other animals, sky, grass, fresh air… After 2 years, the cows are killed in the slaughterhouse.
It took me a year to take a photograph of cows, I was looking for a photo which shows the lot of the herd of 60 cows. The flies in the photo are a herald of danger, taking away dignity and forthcoming death. The purpose of this photography is to draw attention to the dignity of animals as living beings in the context of industrialization of mass husbandry.
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13 SWANS
„13 SWANS” is a part of „60 cows” photography series. This is a story about a flock of mute swans, migratory birds that fly away to warmer countries in autumn. However, this is not always the case in Poland. In summer, when people feed these beautiful birds, it makes them decide to stay in the same place during winter. Unfortunately, when the temperature drops to minus values, it has dire consequences. They often die massively frozen to the water surface, as well as starve when everything is frozen around.
The scene shows part of a flock of 13 mute swans, just before making a decision to depart for warmer countries.
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100 HORSES
The project tells about the tragic fate of horses in relation to humans. When they are too old, too tired, too individual, sick, or the owner finds them unnecessary, they end up in a slaughterhouse. It does not matter that they ambitiously end the elite race with broken legs, that they have worked hard all their lives, that they tried to jump even higher … We love horses for their beauty. We buy paintings, photographs, sculptures, but we don’t really interest us at all… We don’t equate this idealized image with their real fate.
Initially, the photo was supposed to show only one horse, but in the vastness of such terribly tragic stories of these beautiful animals, I decided that a completely different approach to the subject is needed. The photo shows a fragment of the body, it is supposed to resemble a planet – in a global sense, a place of great pain. On purpose, I gave up presenting the most beautiful fragments – head, muscles or figure… We forgot about them.
The title of the photo refers to a hundred horses saved from the slaughterhouse by the foundation running the asylum-stud.
Many thanks to the Pegasus Foundation for help in preparing the project.
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