Witold Ziomek

Witold Ziomek, “Waterfall”, 2017

Witold Ziomek ia a photogrpher from Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. This photograph of a solitary figure dwarfed by a waterfall in Iceland was the wnner in the 2017 Chromatic Discovery of the Year category. The Chromatic Awards is a celebration of color photography annual contest. There were over 3000 entries across 20 categories from 75 countries in 2017.

The Log Bridge

Photographer Unknown, (The Log Bridge)

“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape, an unspace to link One-place-town to Another-place-town over a river or a road or a tangle of railway tracks or a quarry, or to attach an island to another island or to the continent from which it strains. The dream of a bridge is of a woman standing at one side of a gorge and stepping out as if her job is to die, but when her foot falls it meets the ground right on the other side. A bridge is just better than no bridge but its horizon is gaplessness, and the fact of itself should still shame it. But someone had built on this bridge, drawn attention to its matter and failure. An arrogance that thrilled me.”
China Miéville, The Census Taker