Foto Pracownia Wschodnia is a place born out of a passion for photography as an artistic craft, founded on the initiative of independent artists and active in art, education and exhibitions.
We run a black-and-white darkroom equipped with enlargers from 35mm to large format, capable of producing large-scale prints on baryta paper. We offer individual and group workshops for professionals and amateurs (from the basics to advanced techniques such as split-grade printing and archival processing). Our studio, with access to daylight and equipped with high-quality flash lighting and modifiers, is also a space for photographers who want to present their work in the form of exhibitions.
Previous exhibitions
Tomasz Jakub Motyka
from 23 April
to 30 April 2022
The photographic project, in the form of an interactive exhibition, is, as it were, a vehicle to times that pass irretrievably – in this case the carefree childhood the artist spent in the courtyards of Warsaw's Bemowo housing estate. Without reaching for the archive, the author builds a narrative about what was out of what remains – materially and in the memory of his protagonists, with whom he spent time in the courtyards … after school. In a metaphorical sense it is a story about time which, although it "crumbles the concrete plinths in playgrounds and pours the sand out of the sandpit", fixes particular moments in memory and fixes nostalgia.
Karolina Sierota
from 26 March
to 3 April 2022
The INGROWN project is the result of observations made on urban wanderings. It was born of a need to explore the theme of transience. The documented phenomenon of cars growing into urban space and their decay refers in an obvious way to the ephemeral nature of human life and of material objects.
Paulina Mirowska
Kasia Rysiak
from 14 February
to 20 February 2022
The exhibition showed the full design and production process of the original A00 chess sets (www.a00.pl).
The idea for A00 was born at Pracownia Wschodnia in Warsaw's Praga district. During countless conversations over coffee, the artists Kasia Rysiak and Agnieszka Wach, delving into the rules of chess, decided to design their own set. Its origin was the desire to own a chess set marked by elegance, contemporary design and noble materials.
The exhibition was complemented by photographs by Paulina Mirowska documenting the production of the first A00 chess set.
A. Beggio
F. Caponi
P. Koehler
P. Mirowska
T. Motyka
K. Rysiak
K. Toruński
from 1 January
to 16 January 2022
The title refers directly to William Eggleston's photobook and is a presentation of selected works by the artists of the Foto Pracownia Wschodnia collective.
Paulina Grzesiak
from 7 December
to 13 December 2021
Twenty-two black and white photographs taken at the Private Secondary School of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Szymanów show a fragment of the world of the Immaculate Conception Sisters and their pupils. Through the photographs the author wants to draw attention to the courage and determination that distinguish the pupils and to how much their lives differ from those of today's teenagers. Despite obstacles, they do not stray from the path they have chosen. They are smiling, joyful and committed. They form a wonderful community full of support and understanding.
Kasia Rysiak
from 16 October
to 30 October 2021
ANIMA (Latin: soul, wind, air) is a series of black and white analogue photographs accompanied by a soundtrack. Landscapes of Polish national parks and portraits of taxidermied animals have been superimposed on one another.
Using the technique of double exposure of a frame of film, the artist places the animals back in their natural context. With this gesture she restores to nature what was torn from it, if only by means of an illusory happy ending. At the same time she plays with the vision of nature conservation pursued by the ministry of the environment. The second part of the project is a soundtrack – a musical composition based on the sound of the audiosphere of the fauna of Polish forests.