The family, the main character of which is Marcela Paniak, is not like any others. Although there are quite ordinary portrait of related people, they all constitute the author’s contemporary point of view. By using various ways of working with photography, she impersonates all characters herself in order to pay attention to the role of family photography that has changed over the centuries – especially in the context of truth and falsity while presenting oneself. Both of these aspects are present throughout the whole existence of photography. Even now, living in intensively virtual society that communicates mainly through images, it is really crucial what testifies to our individual and collective identity.
Marcela Paniak – doctor of arts and graduate of the Film School in Łódź. Member ofthe Association of Polish Art Photographers and of the Łódź Photographic Society. Author of individual and collective exhibitionsin Poland and abroad. She is focused on topics such as memory, history, archives, identity and photography itself. Under her changed name and surname, she explores the subject of family photography and the issue of identity. She runs workshops on archival photography. Author of texts and photographs in various magazines. Scholarship winner in the program of the Minister of Science and Higher Education (2014-2015) and a Polish woman with award nomination at the international photography festival Les Rencontres d'Arles (2013).
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