Swell

"Swell" hand made book, numbered copies 88 pages, 42 pictures hard cover, 172 x 207 mm photographs: Mateusz Sarello text: Kuba Rubaj & Mateusz Sarello curator & photo edition: Michal Luczak design: Ania Nalecka/Tapir Book Design edition: 350 copies publisher: Instytut Kultury Wizualnej Warsaw 2013 ISBN 978-83-63025-16-8 "Swell" is a story of a break-up and of unaccepted loneliness. About going back to the same places and memories that we can't forget. At first it was supposed to be a documentary project about the Baltic Sea. So a plan was drawn up, the form was thought through, and the places to be visited were marked on the map. The photographs came about during trips together. The last joint photo was taken a little later-and a portrait on a negative ruined by the lab technician. The project no longer mattered, and the outings to the sea were now only an escape from daily life. Over a dozen colour "postcards" have survived from the first trips. They are the beginning of this story. There is no end yet. We're about half-way.

Mateusz Sarello born in 1978 in Warsaw. Member of mentoring program â??Masterclassâ?? 5klatek Academy. Graduate of Annual Photojournalism Workshop in Academy of Photography. Participated in workshops organized by Napo Images agency. Member of Spoldzielnia Dokumentalna (Documentary Association). Awarded and honored on many occasions i.e. PDN Photo Annual 2011, Prix de la Photographie Paris 2011, International Photography Awards 2009 and 2010, FotoVisura Grant 2010. Lucie Foundation Scholarship 2011 and Grand Press Photo 2010 finalist.