Student's life in Warsaw.
Daily routines. Friends. Love. Passions. Addictions.

Listening to music. Reading newspapers. Smoking. Kissing. Sleeping.

Hearing someone playing the guitar.
Hearing someone washing his teeth.
Hearing someone laughing drunk.
Hearing silence when someone prepares for exams.

Wake up in the morning, see a new pair of shoes. Who slept in our flat last night?

Don't Live Alone, Warsaw, Poland, 2010-2011
32x40 cm, pigment giclee print, signed.

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Exhibited at:
- 2012 Galeria Szara, Cieszyn, Poland (part of a group exhibition "Sum is equal to the difference")
- 2012 Fundation No Local, Photomonth in Krakow, Poland
- 2012 House of Art in Opava, Czech Republic.
- 2012 DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague / Prague Photo 2012, Czech Republic
- 2012 FF Gallery, Fotofestiwal Lodz 2012 / International Festival of Photography, Poland
- 2011 Zamosc Week of Photography, Poland

Photographs show what is usually hidden and invisible at first glance. They present the origin of products manufactured in Polish factories and the materials they are made of. The Curator Agata Nowotny, with great scientific curiosity, examined the beginnings of products we use on a daily basis: cups, chairs and even the toilet bowls. This series presents four traditional resources used in Polish industry: wood, glass, ceramics and metal, as well as production processes, using the same materials but resulting in very different products. It shows how dust transforms into a dish, a flat sheet metal into a fork or a lamp, and a log of wood into a chair backrest.

Among the exhibits you can find an iconic chair manufactured by Fameg from bent wood, traditional Hefry cutlery and modern Chors lamps, classic crystals from Julia Glassware, an iconic glass plate desinged by Jan Drost and manufactured by Edwanex Glassworks, as well as various types of ceramic products: from historical Karolina porcelain and craft products from Manufaktura Majolika in Nieborów, to bathroom ceramics from the Koło brand.

Curator: Agata Nowotny
Photography: Krzysztof Pacholak
Design & Production: Grynasz Studio
Research: Anna Łyszcz

Initiator: Arena Design
Partner: Łódź Design Festival

In the community center you can play table soccer or ping pong. In the evenings, adults come and barbecue. Sausages with mustard are a real goody.

By day you play football, volleyball or swim in the lake. Neighbours just bought a new quad bike, so they allow taking a short ride sometimes.

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I got photo albums from my childhood as a heritage - as it often happens, I had no influence on their formation. When I was a kid, my Dad photographed me all the time, often not even asking about my opinion at all. Hence, I got drawers full of prints, which I now owe the vitality of my memories. I remember the photographed situations just in the way my Dad photographed them.

"Pictures my Dad forgot to take" is an attempt of a backward reconstruction. The situations which I keep in mind, although they had never been photographed are its starting point. It's like first creating a signature, then taking the sole photo.

There are several "signatures" that bothered me. I decided to create their visual representation, using the tools Internet provides. I used Google Street View, Google Earth and Panoramio as my personal camera and as a time machine at the same time.

I found places that remind me of pictures just in the way I remembered them.

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exhibition view / Bunkier Sztuki / Photomonth in Krakow (Poland), May 2012

Education

- sociology [University of Warsaw, Poland - Institute of Applied Social Sciences], 2005-2010
- photography [Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic - Institute of Creative Photography], 2010-2014

Work

- The Association of the Creative Initiatives "ę" (art coach, culture manager and photographer)
- Sluzewski Culture Centre (photography teacher)

Exhibitions

2020 "Resources. Slow materials" / Łódź Design Festiwal, Łódź, PL (solo)
2020 "Resources. Slow materials" / Arena Design, Poznań, PL (solo)

2019 "Resources. From Materials to Products" / Łódź Design Festiwal, Łódź, PL (solo)
2019 "Resources" / Arena Design, Poznań, PL (solo)

2015 "Transit" / Millenium Hall, Rzeszow, PL (group exhibition "Krajobrazy Miejskie")
2015 "Transit" / Galeria Ratusz, Zamosc, PL (solo)

2013 "School" / Fotosommer Stuttart, DE (part of a group exhibition "I SEE EUROPE! A visual journey in various chapters") >See exhibition viewSee exhibition viewcuratorial< and download >catalog (pdf)
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pacholak@gmail.com

NGOs
- Greenpeace
- Amnesty International
- ClientEarth
- Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Tworczych "ę" / The Association of the Creative Initiatives "ę"
- Helsinska Fundacja Praw Czlowieka / Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
- European Foundation Centre
- Stefan Batory Foundation
- Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej / Center for Citizenship Education
- Akademia Rozwoju Filantropii w Polsce / Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland
- Stowarzyszenie Klon/Jawor ngo.pl
- Fundacja Form i Ksztaltow
- Fundacja Rozwoju Dzieci im. J.A. Komenskiego
- Fundacja J&S Pro Bono Polonie
- Fundacja Dzieci Niczyje
- Ashoka Polska
- Forum Darczyncow
- Federacja Mazowia
- Fundacja BGK
- Fundacja Nutricia
- Fundacja Zielona Siec
- Fundacja Udaru Mozgu
- Fundacja Civis Polonus

Companies & Institutions:
- IKEA Poland
- FCA Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (Jeep / Alfa Romeo)
- 4F
- Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
- Fundacja Rozwoju Systemu Edukacji / Foundation for the Development of the Education System
- POLIN Muzeum Historii Zydow Polskich / POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
- Uniwersytet Warszawski / University of Warsaw
- Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny / National Audiovisual Institute
- Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich / Polish Filmmakers Association
- Polskie Towarzystwo Pedagogiczne
- Polski Instytut Dyplomacji / Polish Institute of Diplomacy
- TELEMARK
- Pietrzak Sidor & Wspolnicy / Pietrzak Sidor & Partners
- Nutricia / Danone
- Hem (Vitra)
- Parasol Projects
- rzeczyobrazkowe.pl
- WWAA Architects
- Futu Creative
- Macoscope
- Spark Solutions
- Lava Films
- Bouygues Immobilier

Contemporary urban landscape is changing all the time. Highways and ring roads are the latest and most visible phenomenons. They are now the greatest change in the appearance of Warsaw. After many years, finally, Polish capital city got connected to the network of European highways.

New hubs were built. Viaducts, ramps, overpasses, exits and entrances. Warsaw people must now learn again how to navigate and move across the city. They are getting used to the fact that it takes four and a half hours to reach Gdansk and five to reach Berlin.

These "non-places" are extremely attractive for a photographer. Raw, concrete and monumental structures were built under constuction rules known all over the world. The sterile, anonymous structures are unfriendly to someone who does not have a car. They brutally change everything around.

They fascinate.

It was a real travel in time. The school in Chociwel (small village in North-West Poland) looks like a typical polish school. All my memories suddenly came back. It turned out that this place smells just like my own elementary school. The globes are the same. Same arrays. Torn and dusty maps. Toilets which I was always afraid to enter. Dark and stank changing rooms. Everything was the same as it was in my own school.

It was a rare opportunity - just to go back in time and shoot everything that was so strongly associated with my own school-life.

This is not a coherent narrative. These are my own memories. Imagine you meet with your classmate and begin to remind yourselves of that teacher you were most afraid of or go back to places, where you smoked cigarettes during the break. It's something like that.

Imagine that I take you on a walk in the school. I open the first door and show you a geography classroom. We enter, go to the backroom and we see the rock samples, minerals and political maps of the Soviet Union, that collapsed 20 years ago. You know what I mean?

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Exhibited at:
- 2013 Fotosommer Stuttart, Germany (part of a group exhibition "I SEE EUROPE! A visual journey in various chapters") >See exhibition view