Marek is a member of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF) and was born 1975 in Katowice.
“I grew up in Silesia and I also live here - in Myslowice. I work daily
in the field of design graphics, using CAD programs. I take photos of industrial
architecture and ruined, dilapidating post-industrial places. I document the
very process of liquidation as well. I love venturing with my camera into the
unique climate of Silesian districts, tenement houses, familoki (old miner’s
dwellings) and yards. My main cycle of photographic documentation of disappearing
Silesia is called ‘A Register of Changes in the Silesian Panorama’.
The series stands for my personal protest, my disagreement with the senseless
destruction and demolition of achievements and good of many generations of people
living in Slask.
All the things that have been built and extended and expanded for dozens of
years have been utterly annihilated during the last 15 years. Therefore I show
the objects in their unnatural view - in the moment when they “pass away”,
or are left in the chaos of complete destruction. As it is quite obvious that
they do not “perform” what they were created for they now become
excluded from our landscape.”
