TITLE: Passivity

"Passivity" series offers a way of seeing passivity as a state full of meaning — personal, intimate, and often elusive. It is an invitation to contemplate what happens within us when nothing seems to happen.

These photographs were created with the intention of reflecting on the inner struggle hidden beneath the surface of silence. Each frame is a quiet observation of a human in suspension — between movement and stillness, between emotion and its suppression.

Shot on 6x6 medium format analog film

AUTHOR: Arek Akki (Poland)

The human body plays a significant role in my photography.
I am interested in themes such as bodily discomfort, tense relationships with the environment, memory and recollection, the search for anonymity, loneliness, and alienation. I work with monochromatic analogue techniques — medium format film and wet plate collodion.

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Latest exhibitions
In 2024–2025, his collodion works were presented in solo exhibitions:
2024 – Solitude, Alienation, Imprisonment – MBWA Gallery, Leszno
2025 – Memory, Body, Relations – CAL “Na Przedmieściu” Gallery, Wrocław
2025 – Depressions – Photography Gallery, Świdnica

Latest awards
B&W International Awards 2026, Analog category – 1st Prize
IPA Awards 2025, Analog/Film, Fine Art category – 1st Prize
Monovisions Awards 2025, Nudes category – Passivity (series), 3rd Place Award
ND Awards 2024, Analog/Film category – Unwanted Memories, 3rd Place and Bronze Award
ND Awards 2023, Nudes category – Morning After, 3rd Place and Bronze Award
ND Awards 2022, Nude category – Deadnames (series), 1st Place and Gold Star Award
Monochrome Awards 2022, Nudes category – Forest Girl, 1st Prize

He graduated from the University of the Arts in Poznań, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in 2000, specializing in pinhole photography.