TITLE: Black Portraits.

I'm a photographer. I'm an artist. I am the daughter of a chimney sweep. Since childhood my world was tangential to the world of chimney sweeps. This world was full of rules, rights, honor and class. World, whose integral part and attribute was uniform, high-hat and brush. In this world everyone uses specific language and there's a tradition passed down from father to son. My father had only daughters, so a very long time I thought I'd go in his footsteps. I've always been proud of the fact that I am the daughter of a chimney sweep.
When I started taking photos, I knew that would be the day when I will come with camera to this world. I was waiting only for the right moment. This moment, when I'm sure what I want and I will be aware of how to achieve it. When I discovered the technique of wet collodion, I knew it was a good time. That would be the perfect combination - portraits of chimney sweeps and the noble technique. For the last half year I photographed chimney sweeps working in Krakow, in technique wet plate collodion (exactly in ambrotype).

AUTHOR: Marzena Kolarz (Poland)

Born in Cracow, in 1979, Poland

education:
From 2015
Pedagogical University of Cracow, Faculty of Art,
The third-cycle degree studies (Ph.D.)

2005-2007
The Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan
Multimedia Communication Department
Complementary Master of Art degree Studies – Photography
Diplomas in: Advertising Photography Study and Intermedia Photography Study
With honorable mention finish

2002-2005
The Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan
Multimedia Communication Department
Extramural Department of Photography
Diploma in Classical Themes of Photography Study

work
The lecture of the Art Schools of Cracow since 2003.
The subjects: Portret, Emulsion, Advertising Photography, Landscape, Still Life (The School of Creative Photography) and Photography (The School of Art and Design).