The World is Where you Stop - Tomasz Tomaszewski

Description

Tomasz Tomaszewski https://academy.tomasztomaszewski.com/en/, a polish documentary photographer, spent his life photographing and documenting curent events that helped shape our world. From the rise of Karol Józef Wojtyła to become Pope Jean Paul II to being there at the fall of the Berlin Wall, his thorough work and respectful eye brought to world to our doorstep over five decades 

Most of his professional life was spent at National Photographic Magazine. He also lectured at Colombia university’s school of journalism.  

For this book the photographer scoured his archives looking for images that do not fit the mold of everyday life. He wanted something darker, more sinister! Perhaps brought to this mind set while watching the atrocities of the raging war in neighbouring Ukraine. 

Paralleling the range of human nature, the photographs of this book can go from beautiful to challenging to at times disturbing. A deeply personal book that offers unabashed glimpse at the underbelly of human existence. A long-time friend of the photographer drew a comparison to Picasso’s Guernica

Kent Kobersteen, the former Senior Photo Editor of the National Geographic Magazine called Tomasz Tomaszewski “Master of the visual and intellectual elements of photography.”*

Describing this book, he wrote:

"Go on a journey around the world in search of human nature. The World Is Where You Stop is a critical look at our reality, where good and evil, euphoria and suffering, wealth and poverty, virtue, and licentiousness, coexist side by side. For over 40 years of his career, Tomasz Tomaszewski, one of Poland’s most outstanding photographers, has recorded situations that are difficult to pass by indifferently.

Shocking juxtapositions of photos, like shots from mondo films and documentaries, make you reflect on the condition of contemporary man and the world he both lives in and creates. Sometimes the frames emanate the artist’s admiration for the beauty and power of nature, sometimes one can see his overwhelming fear or musings on our humanity.

150 black-and-white images do not explain how it happened that we ended up in a place like this. Instead, they ask questions about where our world is headed and what we can expect at the end of the road.

Built as a coherent, multi-threaded story, the book is a cross-sectional presentation of Tomasz Tomaszewski’s work and includes many pictures that have never been previously published.”

Technical Data

Cover: Soft
Paper: Munken Print White 1.8 150g

Format: 280x370mm
Number of pages: 320
Number of photos: 150 (bw, quadtone)
Language version: English

Print run: 1500 copies
Printing and binding: Argraf (Warsaw, Poland)

Publication date: May 2023
Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS
ISBN: 978-83-965969-2-5