Imprisoned in Art

'Imprisoned in Art' is the project about prisoners being actors, about playing different and uncommon roles in our lives. I try to see and show prisoners as actors in the theater of hard life; during the photo session (just after the show) I try to "extract" the role from the personality of the prisoner but eventually the actor become the prisoner and it is just not possible to separate those two roles from each other. Actors are the prisoners from different prisons in Poland, some of the prisoners were convicted for self-defense (woman who killed her husband after being hurt with hot oil) or for 'hit and run' car accident. Stories behind those people are cruel but it is not so easy to judge them if you can see them only as the actors. You can see only their emotions and fear, sometimes hope and dreams. I took pictures in 2014 and 2015 - just after shows in theaters that took place in Poznan (Poland) during National Competition Prison Theatrical Work.

Freelance photographer based in Poland. Member of the The Association of Polish Art Photographers and The Association of Polish Architects. Focused on modern urban landscape and visual reinterpretation of the human space. Her artistic interests are directed towards architectural and new documentary photography. Initiator, creator and president of FOTSPOT. Together with Łukasz Szamałek they create photographic duo.