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A unique book by a unique lecturer, Prof. Izabela Łapińska wins two silver awards; one in Tokyo and the other one in Budapest. Congratulations!
* Silver Award – Silver Winner in the TIFA Tokyo International Foto Awards competition in the Book – Fine Art category.
Complete list of winners: www.tokyofotoawards.jp/winners/2023/
* Silver Award – Silver Winner in the BIFA Budapest International Foto Awards competition in the Book – People category.
Moreover, the series of photographs from the book "Skin" was awarded the Bronze Winner, the series of photographs Horse in the Nature category.
Complete list of winners: budapestfotoawards.com/winners/bifa/2023
The book "Skin", limited and signed edition, is the culmination of four photographic projects "Naked Face", "Meristem", "Biopsy" and "Autopsy" by Izabela Łapińska. It is a summary of the penetration of the body shell, human skin, but also animal and vegetable skin. The photographic search for features common to living and non-living creatures reveals similarities in the structure of tissue, reveals unusual structures and forms, both imperceptible and those consciously omitted in contemporary culture and the sphere of the body. The project "Skin" touches on the subject of passing, destruction and degradation of the body. Anyone using this book will find out about the uniqueness of the tissue covering living organisms and experience the beauty of natural skin which surrounds and protects the body. He will see the structural kinship which shows the unity of all organisms on Earth. The subject of the book is part of the debate on the perception of the body in social space. The art of photography, thanks to the power of communication and the ability to shape public opinion, can influence the phenomena occurring in the area of exclusion and intolerance. The publication, showing unspoiled beauty, simple and ordinary, polemicizes with the system of values of the world of homo aestheticus.
The book "Skin" is a good excuse to change one’s attitude towards a foreign body, but above all towards your own body. It can be a contribution to reflection on the need for self-acceptance.
The book was published by the Lodz Film School Publishing House. Project and typesetting: Joanna Apanowicz, PhD
Printing house: Oltom.
Izabela Łapińska
Polish artist photographer and film expert. Professor of art, PhD degree in the field of film art, specialization - photography at the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. She is a graduate of photography at the PWSFTviT in Łódź. She also graduated from the University of Lodz in the field of culture studies, specialization in film studies. She has had dozens of individual photographic exhibitions, domestic and foreign, and numerous publications in periodicals, including French, Belgian, Czech and Greek. The artist's works have been published in the Belgian "Objectif", in the French edition of "PHOTO", in the magazines "Pozytyw", "Camera Obscura", "Format" and "Akademia".
Complete list of winners: www.tokyofotoawards.jp/winners/2023/
* Silver Award – Silver Winner in the BIFA Budapest International Foto Awards competition in the Book – People category.
Moreover, the series of photographs from the book "Skin" was awarded the Bronze Winner, the series of photographs Horse in the Nature category.
Complete list of winners: budapestfotoawards.com/winners/bifa/2023
The book "Skin", limited and signed edition, is the culmination of four photographic projects "Naked Face", "Meristem", "Biopsy" and "Autopsy" by Izabela Łapińska. It is a summary of the penetration of the body shell, human skin, but also animal and vegetable skin. The photographic search for features common to living and non-living creatures reveals similarities in the structure of tissue, reveals unusual structures and forms, both imperceptible and those consciously omitted in contemporary culture and the sphere of the body. The project "Skin" touches on the subject of passing, destruction and degradation of the body. Anyone using this book will find out about the uniqueness of the tissue covering living organisms and experience the beauty of natural skin which surrounds and protects the body. He will see the structural kinship which shows the unity of all organisms on Earth. The subject of the book is part of the debate on the perception of the body in social space. The art of photography, thanks to the power of communication and the ability to shape public opinion, can influence the phenomena occurring in the area of exclusion and intolerance. The publication, showing unspoiled beauty, simple and ordinary, polemicizes with the system of values of the world of homo aestheticus.
The book "Skin" is a good excuse to change one’s attitude towards a foreign body, but above all towards your own body. It can be a contribution to reflection on the need for self-acceptance.
The book was published by the Lodz Film School Publishing House. Project and typesetting: Joanna Apanowicz, PhD
Printing house: Oltom.
Izabela Łapińska
Polish artist photographer and film expert. Professor of art, PhD degree in the field of film art, specialization - photography at the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. She is a graduate of photography at the PWSFTviT in Łódź. She also graduated from the University of Lodz in the field of culture studies, specialization in film studies. She has had dozens of individual photographic exhibitions, domestic and foreign, and numerous publications in periodicals, including French, Belgian, Czech and Greek. The artist's works have been published in the Belgian "Objectif", in the French edition of "PHOTO", in the magazines "Pozytyw", "Camera Obscura", "Format" and "Akademia".