PHOTOMONTH IN KRAKOW — 2012
OLA WALKÓW, I’M 22 YEARS OLD AND MY BOYFRIEND ALMOST DUMPED ME
Curators: Zuza Krajewska & Bartek Wieczorek
Ola Walków, Impression 3, from the I’m 22 Years Old and My Boyfriend Almost Dumped Me series, 2011 © Ola Walków
Zuza Krajewska and Bartek Wieczorek talk to Ola Walków
I’m going to talk in simple sentences now, and not philosophise. That’s not the point. Hey, I never thought I’d be talking to you on Skype.
Why did I undergo breast-reduction surgery and photograph the process? It was a difficult time in my life. That work was an escape from what hurts, from the fact that I’m bleeding, that I can’t stand up straight—the sense that I have filters, drains, and foreign bodies in me. For me those photos were a form of therapy.
The first thing I thought of was beauty. Intuitively I felt that it would be useful. I called it beauty then, because that’s what I felt. Brutal beauty. But why I did it, I don’t know.
Ola Walków (born 1989, Katowice)
A student at the Lycée Guez de Balzac in Angoulême, France, and graduate of the Academy of Photography in Krakow, where her supervisor was Szymon SzczeĹniak.
Her motto is: “You have to do what you are good at, and what you love, and some time you’ll be noticed and appreciated—there’s no hurry after all …” Lives in Krakow.
OLA WALKÓW
I’M 22 YEARS OLD AND MY BOYFRIEND ALMOST DUMPED ME
Curators: Zuza Krajewska & Bartek Wieczorek
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