EVENTS

Yours Gallery invites to
 the meeting with found photos of
 AUGUSTIS

Thursday, September 2, 2010, 19:00




In 2004 there was a remarkable discovery in Bialystok. Two teenagers found the old negatives, just by chance. As it turned out, the negatives were signed by Boleslaw Augustis. The images revealed the everyday life and activities in Bialystok during the 30's in the past century.

Yours Gallery has the pleasure to invite you to the presentation of a book and talk with: 


Grzegorz Dabrowski, Kuba Dabrowski and Karolina Lewandowska.




Free admission.

A photo story titled „Urban Golf in India” was awarded third place in the „Sports Picture Story” category at the 67th Pictures of the Year International (POYi), the oldest and one of the most prestigious photojournalism competitions in the world. Twelve black and white photographs show young amateur golfers from Indian slums, who developed their own variety of the game, using self made equipment, e.g. molded iron rods to resemble golf sticks.

The pictures were taken in Mumbai, in November 2009.

To see the awarded pictures visit: www.poy.org

Yours Gallery has the pleasure to invite you to a meeting with Bownik, whose “Gamers” exhibition is currently on display at the gallery, and his invitees.

Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 7 pm
Skwer, Krakowskie Przedmieście 60A

The participants of the talk on the artist’s inspirations, e-sports and gaming include:
Adam Mazur, photography critic, curator at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
Mirosław Filiciak (The Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities), media expert, author of “The Virtual Playground”.
“Gamers” is one of few projects devoted to the phenomenon of e-sports. It depicts both gamers, i.e. participants of web tournaments and their homes-cum-training halls for the virtual sport they are fans of.
Free admission 

Tomasz Gudzowaty’s “Sports Features” exhibition on display at this year’s Les Rencontres d'Arles, the most prestigious European photography festival. It is a great distinction for the photographer, the more that the images will be exhibited as part of a special section curated by one of the key persons in the international photographic milieu, American photographer Nan Goldin. Invited by festival organizer’s to curate the section the artist selected the most interesting photographers from across the world to present their work. The photographers invited included, apart from Tomasz Gudzowaty, Antoine D'Agata, Anders Petersen, Jim Goldberg and more.
 The “Sports Features” exhibition is the first part of an extensive and ambitious project under the same title. The idea entails a series of visual essays devoted to different sports, mainly ethnic and traditional ones, but also to sports which originate from contemporary urban culture. The project was exhibited many times and received numerous awards over the past few years. It was recognised at the following competitions, among others, World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year and The Best of Photojournalism. In Poland the series won Gudzowaty the Grand Press Photo award.
For more information about the festival please visit: www.rencontres-arles.com 

Winners of photography competitions such as World Press Photo, Sony World Photography Award, 
Grand Press Photo, BZ WBK Press Photo, Newsreportaż and more: 
Wojtek Grzędziński, Adam Lach, Filip Ćwik, Piotr Małecki
 Maciej Jeziorek and photo editor Monika Bajkowska invite everyone to 
take part in workshops addressed at professional and advanced photographers. On three consecutive Saturdays in August (8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug) each participant will work on his or her own story idea under the supervision of a selected photographer. The workshop will end with a public slide show at Skwer park at Krakowskie Przedmieście 60A. Twenty participants can take part in the workshops and the final set will be selected based on portfolios. If interested in the workshop, please send 30 images (web quality), a resume and the name of the photographer you would like to work with. We will try to accommodate your request (entries accepted on first come first serve basis) but cannot guarantee matching you with the top choice photographer. Applications accepted from 25 June to 24 July at 
warsztaty@yoursgallery.com
. A complete workshop programme available for download at www.napoimages.com
Participation fee: PLN 350 

The jury of this year’s Grand Press Photo, headed by Mr Spencer Platt, awarded two photographers represented by the Yours Gallery Foundation – Tomasz Gudzowaty received the 1st Prize in the Sport – Series category for a series portraying young jockeys starting in the Nadaam races. The photographer also received a 2nd Prize in the Sport - Single Photo category, for a photograph taken in Mongolia during the national horse races in Nadaam.

Rafał Milach received the 1st Prize in the Nature – Series for snapshots of the Black Sea coast.
We congratulate all the winners!
More at:
www.grandpressphoto.pl
www.tomaszgudzowaty.com
www.rafalmilach.com

The names of the winners of one of the most prominent photojournalism contests Best of Photojournalism 2009 in the world have just been announced. An International Contest Committee awarded Tomasz Gudzowaty with three awards! For yet another time the photographic milieu distinguished his humane approach to photography and his insightful treatment of sport. Tomasz Gudzowaty won two awards in the Sport Portrait Series. He won  1st place  for a picture story of the greatest Olympic Champions from the past. The sportspeople pictured include: Jan Szczepański, Armin Hary, Mark Rakita, Irena Szewińska. In the same category the photographer ranked 2nd with portraits of young jockeys racing in the traditional Mongolian Naadam horse race.  Images documenting the race made it to 1st place in the Sport Picture Story category.

The contest organised by the National Press Photographers Association is the leading digital photojournalism competition. This is the third distinction of Tomasz Gudzowaty’s work this year as earlier he was recognised in the World Press Photo 2009 and Picture of the Year 2009 contests.

Winning pictures available on the NPPA website at: http://bop.nppa.org/2009/still_photography/winners/index.php?cat=SPS&place=1st http://bop.nppa.org/2009/still_photography/winners/?cat=SPP

The Maison de la photographie gallery in Lille and Yours Gallery
invite you to a pre-premiere exhibition by Tomasz Gudzowaty,
Sports Features held as part of the Transphotographiques 2009 festival. Exhibition opening night will take place on 26 March 2009 at 7 pm in Lille.
The picture series was exhibited at Yours Gallery in the summer of 2008. The images on display include those awarded at World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year and Best of Photojournalism.

The exhibition will close on 3 May 2009
Maison de la photographie, 18, rue Fremy, Lille Francja www.maisonphoto.com

Yours Gallery invites you to a meeting with Wojtek Grzędziński, this year's World Press Photo winner.

20 March 2009 at 6:30 pm
During the meeting the photographer will present his material shot during the war in Georgia. He will talk about his approach to war photojournalism and the motives behind the project.
Tickets: free.

The Polish photographer is one of the winners of the other, beside World Press Photo, most acclaimed photojournalism contests in the world. The picture series “Ukraine at the Black Sea“ made it to 2nd place in the Science / Nature category. This is the second time Milach received international recognition. Last year he won first prize in the World Press Photo in the Arts & Entertainment category for the "Retired circus artists" series. Congratulations to Rafał for his success! The images awarded
at the POY 2009 available at: http://www.poyi.org/66/02/second_01.php

To see more of Milach’s work, please visit his website: www.rafalmilach.com

The French Institute, Yours Gallery, the TP Group Foundation and Magnum Photos invite to an evening with Alex Majoli

4 March 2009 at 6:00 pm

The lecture of the famous member of the Magnum Photos agency will accompany the photography exhibition "Niebojętny Świat" / "Un monde en partage", currently on display in Yours Gallery. Alex Majoli will explain his participation in the project „Niebojętny Świat”, but also discuss his photographic inspirations and the intricate way which led him to the famous Magnum Photos. The lecture will be joined with a multimedia presentation of a large collection of Alex Majoli's work.

The event will take place at the French Institute in Warsaw and will be held in English.
Admission free.

Yours Gallery and Fundacja Grupy TP invite you to photography workshops for kids entitled “At the Other Side of the Looking Glass“. The event is held in conjunction with the photographic “A World that Cares – 8 Approaches to Social work by Magnum Photos". The workshop addressed at children aged 6 to 8 and their caretakers will be ran by an experienced teacher Iwona Brzózka. Through fun and play kids will spark up an interest in photography. During the workshop kids will have an opportunity to take Polaroid photos. Two workshops will be held on
28 February and 14 March 2009 at noon.
The workshop will last approx. 90 minutes. Register to take part by sending a message entitled “Po drugiej stronie lustra” to: 
gallery@yoursgallery.com. Please register by providing the number of kids and caretakers planning to attend and selected workshop date. Only 10 kids can take part in one workshop. Registration on first-come first-serve basis. Tickets: free.

The Jury of the 66^th edition of Picture of The Year has awarded Tomasz Gudzowaty with the first prize for the single shot in Sports Action category.
The winning photograph presents Naadam – the Mongolian horse races, where the jockeys are often children.
It is worth to admit that this is the second edition of this prestigious competition which gives Tomasz Gudzowaty the award. In 2008 American jury awarded the photographer with the first prize in Sports Portfolio category.
Pictures of the Year, organized since 1944 by the journalism faculty of the University of Missouri, is one of the oldest and most prestigious press photography contests in the United States. More information at: www.poy.org

We are proud to announce, that the photograph titled Child jockey made by Tomasz Gudzowaty (Yours Gallery/ Focus Fotoagentur), has been awarded with 3rd Prize in this year’s edition of World Press Photo 2009, in “Sport features - singles” category.
Nominated picture was taken in Baganuur / Mongolia in 2008.

Yours Gallery and Fundacja Grupy TP invite you to photography workshop ran by Alex Majoli a photograher associated in Magnum Photos agency.
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 11:00 am No attendance fee. First-come first-serve basis. To take part submit a portfolio (5 to 10 photos) by 28 February to warsztaty@yoursgallery.com Selection based on evaluation of portfolios. Selected participants will receive an email message with workshop details. The workshop will be held in English.

Tomasz Gudzoawty's Sports Features exhibiton displayed at Yours Gallery in the summer of 2008 will be held at Dolnośląskie Centrum Fotografii “Domek Romański“. The exhibition consists of twenty nine black and white photographs depicting various sporst, mainly ethnic and traditional ones. The selection includes images recognised in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year and Best of Photojournalism contests.

Opening night will take place on 5 February at 5 pm. The exhibition will close on 28 February . Gallery opening hours: Monday to Friday 10 am till 6 pm, Saturdays 11 am till 4 pm. Tickets: free.

Yours Gallery would like to invite you to an evening with Todd Hido
Friday, 28 November 2008, 6 pm
The “Between the Two” exhibition of photography opens with a talk by Todd Hido and a multimedia presentation of a large collection of his art.
The American photographer will talk about the intricacies of his work,
his inclination for late night walks and inspirations.

The event will be held in English.

The exhibition "City of Shadows. Mug-Shots - early 20th Century
Police Photography, Sydney, Australia"
presente in Yours Gallery in the beginning of 2008, can be seen again
at Tumult Foundation Gallery in Toruń.
Once again, the 33 portrets of the Sydney's criminals can be seen on the display. The authors of these police photos remain unknown.
The pictures come from the Museum of Justice collection from Sydney, Australia

The exhibition starts from October 3th till October 31st 2008
Tuesday – Friday: 13.00 – 18.00, Saturday – Sunday: 12.00 – 16.00
Galeria Fundacji Tumult, Rynek Nowomiejski 28, Toruń

Yours Gallery invites you for the premiere of the new album:
At the Border, by members of The International
Association of Photojournalists Sputnik Photos.
Thursday, August 21st 2008, 6.00 PM
Album is a result of 2-year project realized in Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Georgia, and Belarus.
It consists of 8 photo essays portraying the problems of emigrant’s fate, struggling in the search of the better life.
The authors are: Andrej Balco (Slovakia), Jan Brykczyński (Poland), Manca Juan (Slovenia), Justyna Mielnikiewicz (Georgia), Rafał Milach (Poland), Domen Pal (Slovenia), Agnieszka Rayss (Poland) i Filip Singer (Czech Rep.)
The project „At the Border” has been already presented in the form of exhibit and the slideshow at the „Transfotografia 2007” Festival in Gdynia, and at the “House of Photography” in Liptovsky Miklas, Slovakia.
The album was produced in cooperation with Visegrad Fund and European Cultural Foundation.
During the Opening the guest visitors will be the polish members of “Sputnik”: Agnieszka Rayss, Jan Brykczyński and Rafał Milach.

We are pleased to invite you to The Museum’s Night at Yours Gallery

Agenda:
• multimedia presentation of the previous exhibitions
• individual portfolio’s review – consultations with gallery curators

Individuals interested in presentation of their portfolio, please confirm your participation in advance.

The judging panel of the prime photojournalism contest in Poland Grand Press Photo has just annopunced the names of winners for 2008.
Image of the year 2008 award went to Tomasz Gudzowaty
for a picture of kids from a private acrobatics school in Wuqiao, China. Tomasz Gudzowaty’s work awarded in the Single Sports Photo: 1st prize – Yoga masters in training, Varanasi, India 2nd prize – Swimmers of the Ukrainian National Synchronic Swimming Team and in the Sport, picture series: 1st prize – Pupils of a gymnastics school in Shanghai

In the Events category, 2nd prize went to Rafał Milach for his picture series of retires circus artists who had once trained and worked in the former circus school in Julinek near Warsaw.

During the coming weekend, on 29th and 30th March,
Lorenzo Castore will lead a photography workshops entitled:
"How to define your own territory".
The workshops will take place in the seat of the
European Photography Academy (Mokotowska 4/6, Warsaw).
Workshops cost: 350 PLN.
If you are interested, please contact the academy's office by telephone (022) 825 17 82,
or by e-mail: eaf@eaf.com.pl.

Lorenzo Castore's exhibition entitled "Hands up!" took place at Yours Gallery in November 2007.

Jury of one of the world's leading digital photojournalism contests, has just announced the verdict of its seventh edition. Tomasz Gudzowaty won the first place in the "Sports Enterprise" category and was awarded in "Sports Picture Story" category.
The picture, that won the 1st prize, comes from a photo essay about the national team of Ukrainian synchronized swimmers lead by Svetlana Saidova, and the other picture, that has been rewarded with an Honorable Mention, concerns young Chinese gymnasts from Shanghai. Both mentioned cycles are parts of a big project named Sport Features, that Gudzowaty has been working on since few years and it concerns over 40 disciplines of mostly non-commercial sports, also those that are absent from the media and somehow exotic and untypical.

The Best of Photojournalism contest is organized by the American National Press Photographers Association (www.nppa.org). NPPA was founded in Boston in 1946 and its aim is it to promote and support ethics and the highest standards of photojournalism.

To see the rewarded pictures visit: http://bop.nppa.org/2008/still_photography/winners/

On the 19th March 2008 Yours Gallery starts the sale of the photo albums.
You will be able to buy the following items even with 30% discount!

Abbas, Allah o Akbar – a journey through militant Islam; Phaidon 2001
Anahita Ghabaian, Iran in the 21st century; Silk Road Gallery 2003
Bettina Rheims, Female Trouble; Schirmer/Mosel 2002
Bill Jacobson, Photographs; Hatje Cantz 2005
Bruce Bernard, One hundred photographs; Phaidon 2002
Britta Jaschinski, Zoo; Phaidon 1996
Douglas Kirkland, An Evening with Marilyn; Welcome Books 2005
Elger Esser, Vedutas and Landscapes; Schirmer/Mosel 2001
Eugene Richards, Dorchester Days; Phaidon 2002
Guy Bourdin, Exhibit A; Schirmer/Mosel 2001
Hans Michael Koetzle, Photo Icons;Taschen 2005
Helmut Newton, Gun for hire; Taschen 2005
June Newton, Mrs. Newton; Taschen 2005
Jonathan Torgovnik, Bollywood Dreams; Phaidon 2004
Luc Delahaye, Winterreise; Phaidon 2003
Marco Bischof, Questions to My Father; Trolley 2004
Mary Ellen Mark, Exposure; Phaidon 2006
Shanta Rao, Stories of Women; Dewi Lewis 1995
Simon Kuper, Magnum Football; Phaidon 2005
Stephen Ferry, I am rich potosi; Monacelli 1999
William Claxton, Photographic memory; PowerHouse Books 2002

Exact prices can be found at our website.
Caution! Some of the albums may be slightly damaged.
The sell will take place until further notice.

Jury of the 65th edition of the Pictures of the Year contest has rewarded Gudzowaty with the 1st prize in the Sports Portfolio category. His project contains 12 pictures from the years 2000-2007 and some of them won before contests as World Press Photo, POY, Best Of Photojournalism (USA) or Humanity Photo Awards (China). In the earlier editions of POY (in 2005 and in 2007) Gudzowaty was rewarded with the Award of Excellence.
Tomasz Gudzowaty, who won his first international awards with photography of the nature, is focusing since few years on a sport photography, mostly on its non-commercial and exotic varieties.The whole project will contain 40 black and white essays in convention of a classic photo reportage and according to the author, is going to be ready in couple of years.

Pictures of the Year, organized since 1944 by the journalism faculty of the University of Missouri, is one of the oldest and most prestigious press photography contests in the United States. More information at: www.poy.org

Tomasz Gudzowaty was born in 1971. He obtained a degree in law at University of Warsaw. Among his interest are humanistic photography and the form of black and white essay, but he is also a recognized author of a nature and sport photography. His works were published among others in Max Magazine, L’Equipe, Guardian, Newsweek, Stern, Forbes and Wprost. Gudzowaty is a multiple winner of the most important photography contests such as World Press Photo (1999, 2000, 2003 in two categories, 2006 and 2008), Pictures of the Year,NPPA, Best of Photojournalism, Polish Contest of a Press Photography (Konkurs Fotografii Prasowej) or Grand Press Photo organized by Press Magazine. He cooperates with Warsaw's Yours Gallery and Focus Fotoagentur in Hamburg.
For more information visit: www.gudzowaty.com

We are proud to announce, that the photograph titled „Yoga performers” made by Tomasz Gudzowaty and Judith Berekai (Yours Gallery/ Focus Fotoagentur), has been awarded with 3rd Prize in this year’s edition of World Press Photo 2008, in “Sport features” category.
Nominated picture was taken in Varanasi / India in 2007.

The 1st Prize in category „Art & Entertainment” went to Rafał Milach for his cycle called „Retired circus artist”. The photograph is also one of the artists collaborating with Yours Gallery.

Congratulations to All of them !

On Wednesday 23rd January 2008 the Polish TV channel TVP Kultura will show a documentary movie about Jan Grarup that was made in the beginning of the year on a occasion of the opening of his exhibition entitled " Darfur. A silent genocide." in Yours Gallery. The exhibition will be open till the end of January.

On 6th December 2007 Jan Grarup, a Danish photographer, who was rewarded eight times at World Press Photo, opened his exhibition entitled "Darfur. A silent genocide". We would like to invite you to the meeting about Darfur that will be organized at Yours Gallery on the occasion of the International Day of Darfur, on 15th December at 16 p.m. Magdalena Nagórska, action chief „Poland for Darfur”, members of PAH - the Polish Humanitary Action and the members of Amnesty International will be participating in the discussion that will be followed by a movie „The devil came on the horseback”.
Leader of the meeting: Adam Leszczyński, Gazeta Wyborcza.
During the exhibition you will be able to buy the "PAH drops". The whole profit will go into building of 15 wells in the region of south Sudan.
Jan Grarup's exhibition will be open till 15th January 2008

Please bring your portfolio in a digital or analog form.
The cost of the workshop is 200 PLN and it has to be payed upon registration.
The number of places is limited.

Yours Gallery would like to invite you to Lorenzo Castore Photo Workshops that will take place on 11th November 2007 at 2.30 pm. Workshops will be lead in English and will last about 6 hours.

Please bring your portfolio in a digital or analog form.
The cost of the workshop is 100 PLN and it has to be payed upon registration.
The number of places is limited.

Yours Gallery would like to invite you to the photo workshops lead by Alex Majoli, a Magnum photographer. Workshops will take place on
15th June 2007 at 3 pm.
They will be lead in English and will last about 5,6 hours.
The cost is 100 PLN and has to be payed upon registration.
The number of places is limited to 15. Personal registration only.
All participants will receive an invitation to the opening of Trent Park's exhibition on 12th June 2007.
Please bring your portfolio in a digital or analog form.

Photographer, collector, diarist, and writer of books Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist and earned him a central position in the international art world. He was painted by Francis Bacon, painted on by Salvador Dalí, and made diaries with Andy Warhol; he toured with Truman Capote and the Rolling Stones, created books with Jacqueline Onassis and Mick Jagger—all of whom are brought to life, literally and figuratively, in his work. As a fashion photographer, he took Vogue stars like Veruschka to Africa and brought new ones—most notably Iman—back to the U.S. with him.

Friday, 12th of January 2007 at 9 pm