Friday, September 4 | 19:00 | Kino Muza, screening room #1
Meeting with Jan Grarup, the protagonist of PHOTOGRAPHER OF WAR following the screening of PHOTOGRAPHER OF WAR
Languages: English and Polish
He witnessed the Rwandan genocide and photographed war zones; it brought him fame and his best-known works depict burning ruins, a child preparing a terrorist attack in Mosul, or a woman in a bombed-out hotel in Mogadishu staring at the sea. Danish photographer Jan Grarup is the master of war photography. His photos regularly appear in some of the widest-read newspapers of the world, including Newsweek, The Guardian, Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, GEO, Paris Match, and La Repubblica. This documentary is a psychological portrait of a photographer deeply involved in his work and the constant pursuit of new challenges, a man who’s been documenting the horrors of war for 25 years—who suddenly faces a new internal struggle, assuming the role of a responsible father and partner. It turns out that photography is an excellent tool in the fight against death on and off the battlefield.
Guest:
Jan Grarup — one of the most famous war photographers in the world, recipient of almost all of the most prestigious photography and human rights awards: World Press Photo, UNICEF, W. Eugene Smith Foundation for Humanistic Photography, POYi and NPPA. His coverage of refugees from Darfur brought him a Visa d’Or at the 2005 Visa Pour l’Image festival in France.
Moderator:
Andrzej Marzec — philosopher, film critic, editor of “Czas Kultury”, vlogger at “Widma Marca”. Marzec curates the “Krótkie spięcia” cinematic cycle at Pawilon and hosts philosophy debates at Kino Muza. His research focuses on object-oriented ontology, dark ecology, postdigital aesthetics, and contemporary alternative cinema. Author of "Widmontologia. Teoria filozoficzna i praktyka artystyczna ponowoczesności" (2015).
