TITLE: HOTEL UZBEKISTAN

“There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind”.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I am not looking for originality and very complicated images by force, an unattainable pattern for me is the humanistic heritage of the pioneers of black and white photography. I place an individual person at the center of my photographic considerations, which my philosophical nominalism is expressed in. Despite such a declaration, I must admit that I often use metaphors, symbols, etc., which are a kind of bridge connecting people from different cultural circles.

The photographs presented here were taken in Uzbekistan ( Tashkent, Samarkand ) over the course of a couple of days in March 2023. Hotel Uzbekistan is located in the very center of the exclusive district of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. In Soviet times the hotel was a symbol of the unifying power of Communism. This building became a pretext for me to tell a short metaphorical story about the fact that there is no such force that would be able to defeat the human spirit. However, this story can be, which I consider an advantage, interpreted in several ways.


AUTHOR: PIOTR NALEWAJKA (Ireland)

Philosopher(PhD) and photographer(professional member of Visual Artist Ireland). Exploring human condition through abstract and documentary photography mainly.