Dawid Galinski specializes in portrait, staged and advertising photography and classifies his aesthetic as difficult, dark and depressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Q1. Can you introduce yourself and talk about how you got into photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My name is Dawid Galinski, I have been dealing with photography since 2006. I specialize in portrait, staged and advertising photography. I started taking pictures because it allowed me to create my own world on my own terms that I can escape to – it’s some kind a form of self-therapy. From a technical point of view, ‘I am a photographer’, although I distanced myself from this term very much, seeing the work of true photographers and people who barely bought the camera, read something on the forum, got a few likes under the photo and named themselves ‘artists’ or ‘photographers’ – I prefer a rather safe term ‘I deal with photography’ because I know the importance of the title and I think that to be called an artist or photographer you really have to deserve it and I am aware of my lack of knowledge and workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q2. Where did you study photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz\/Poland at the Faculty of Graphics and Painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was crossed off the student list twice, so I didn’t finally finish my PhD in the end…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q3. Do you remember your first shot? What was it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The first photo I took was on my grandparents’ anniversary when I was a little kid. Someone gave me a small compact camera and a ‘responsible task’, i.e. documentation of the entire event. I watched the behaviors and I made up a specific shot in my head, waited and took a photo exactly what I wanted. My father told me that I should do it ‘professionally’ and I think I took his words too much seriously as an eight-year-old…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q4. What equipment do you use?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I do not have photographic equipment. I work with various companies from which I borrow photographic equipment depending on a specific photographic project – so it does not matter to me whether it is Hasselblad, Nikon, Linhof or Fujifilm, full frame, aps-c or medium format. The camera is just a tool. I prefer to make the equipment dependent on the project I am doing than the project from the equipment on which I am forced to work with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Q5. What do you hope to achieve?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I would like to start another project that has been in my head for over 10 years and is in the initial stage of implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dawid Galinski specializes in portrait, staged and advertising photography and classifies his aesthetic as difficult, dark and depressive. Q1. Can you introduce yourself and talk about [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":18282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[372],"tags":[483,382],"yoast_head":"\n