by Ralph HälbigUnmistakable not only for me is Justyna Mielnikiewicz an interesting photographer. Anymore she get an award in the catagory of world press photos. I guess she is emotional and rational in her amazing work. In the multi-layered world of the far reaching east euopean areas and central asia is just that her high capacity.
I met Justyna Mielnikiewicz last year short after the war in Tbilisi at the lunchtime. Unfortunatly I don't know her really but sometimes during I made internet researches for my blog I could see her photos about the caucasian life from her own point of view. Last September I could descovered her interesting physiognomy in a cafe in Tbilisi.
I think her photos are very similair to her character. All series of her work are not only a simple documentation of incidents. Justyna Mielnikiewicz has got a high education. Maybe this is also the reason that her photos are severe but just. More or less she is brave and directly. A big advantage is her intelligent cultural view of the immediate situation. She can see at least in both or more directions. I think she can very good realise a complex situation in a work like to capture different aspects like normal life, politics, strange moments for a very good balance in a frame. She is closed to the inhabitants of a country and knows the reasons of the life situations in different nationalities. For example there are a west and east view in the same moment. Furthermore she is also looking for stories with problems between nationalities. Or she can feel the human being in a concret situation in the context of a ambivalent real situation. Moreover is the interesting aspect in her work the skeptical experience. She is taking almost artifical photos with a grain of salt and otherwise she is looking for the archaeological aspect in a situation. In certain respects her work is multiplexing a scientifical, historical and aesthetical photography. This is a very seldom in the journalistic world of mass-medias today.
I mean her sight is a result of her biography. She was born in the communist times of Poland and has experiences in changing of situations and several positions. In the first contact she hasn't probems with complex situations and can stay in action in a hard environment. Eventual she can feel with the people. I hold Justyna Mielnikiewiczs work in high esteem.
more about Justyna Mielnikiewicz:
* www.justmiel.com
* www.justmiel.org
* tudasiuda.blogspot.com
* www.lightstalkers.org/justyna
* www.sputnikphotos.com/justyna-mielnikiewicz
* vervephoto.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/justyna-mielnikiewicz
* www.worldpressphoto.org
* www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk
* www.anzenberger.com
* www.mdf-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/calender/ausstellung/nahtstellen-fotos-fuer-die-pressefreiheit
* www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de
* www.photoscala.de/Artikel/Nahtstellen-Fotos-fuer-die-Pressefreiheit-2008
* www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19
* www.faz.net/print/Feuilleton/Verblueffende-Fotos-und-eine-Liste-des-Terrors
* www.laif.de/de/article
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