Mad Alice Ordinary Photography

October/ November/ December

2012-02-22T22:59:00.002+01:00

Once upon a time at Pavon's

2011-12-05T13:58:00.001+01:00

Marta sketching on the wall.

2011-11-21T23:58:00.001+01:00

The Magic Garden

2011-11-20T00:37:00.001+01:00

June/ July/ Warsaw/ Roskilde/ Białowieża

2011-08-10T23:41:00.000+02:00

May / June

2011-06-23T16:27:00.000+02:00

I have clones

Handsome Furs

Toro y Moi

Białystok

bye bye Ghosts

Białystok

The Night of Museums 2011

2011-05-15T21:03:00.000+02:00

May / Toro y Moi concert & afterparty

2011-05-08T18:46:00.000+02:00

April / Varsovio / Bjalistoko

2011-05-04T17:59:00.000+02:00

OLEK

April / Warsaw

2011-05-01T22:39:00.000+02:00

March

2011-03-27T18:18:00.000+02:00

February

2011-03-20T17:13:00.000+01:00

January

2011-02-07T12:19:00.000+01:00

December days&nights

2011-01-08T23:41:00.000+01:00

November/December

2010-12-31T18:18:00.000+01:00

The first snow

polish auguries

it seems I will marry diseased unicorn...

the first snowman!

November

2010-12-31T13:20:00.000+01:00

Warsaw

2010-12-31T12:43:00.000+01:00

this is the place

2010-12-28T23:16:00.000+01:00

this is the place where women accused of witchery were burned at the stake

kim jong-il looking at things - a blog

2010-12-28T23:12:00.000+01:00

http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/

Berlin, baby! Awesome Suckers and boring Yeasayer's concert.

2010-12-24T14:45:00.000+01:00

Berlin!

There are some similarities between Berlin and Warsaw.

o_O

It was really beautful church.

I've met Batman spending his afterhours in Berlin!

Ewa fell in love with these surely talented bavarian guys.

I miss this bicycle. It was perfect.

some polish specialities

Suckers!

Suckers and the WTF man.

♥

Yeasayer:

Yeasayer's Berlin set list was exactly the same as it was in Poland few days later...

some bass player

What's his name? Ira?

Scared Mr Bommel.

Chris and Mr. Bommel.

Returning to Poland was painful.

Hello Poland. Go to hell.

Light blue

2010-12-24T14:19:00.000+01:00

October

2010-12-24T14:11:00.000+01:00

my friend's b-day party

Kasia

Up To Date Festival, Białystok

find Mad Alice on this photo:

Kate called it Jałta:

once upon a time in Eufemia:

September/ October/ Pleasant experiences, Warsaw

2010-12-19T18:28:00.000+01:00

There's always something missing. Białystok/Warszawa

2010-12-17T15:43:00.000+01:00

Trip to Prague & Yeasayer's gig

2010-12-17T14:51:00.000+01:00

Yeasayer!

with Ira ♥

with Anand

my tambourine signed by whole Yeasayer ♥

August / Białystok

2010-12-17T12:04:00.000+01:00

frisbee!

July in Warsaw/ summer in the city

2010-12-17T11:51:00.000+01:00

cut copy!

July! Open'er Festival memories

2010-12-15T22:25:00.000+01:00

day zero/ Gdynia

day one:

Ira, Yeasayer

day two:

day three:

day four:

day after:

June

2010-12-15T20:24:00.000+01:00

June was the month I had my master's exam. I took this photo just a minute before heading to the University to get my Master of Arts degree in Philosophy. It was on June 21st . I'll probably remember this day till I die.

May/ What the hell was I doing in Toruń?

2010-12-15T20:04:00.000+01:00

May/Warsaw

2010-12-15T19:57:00.000+01:00

April/May/Warsaw

2010-12-15T19:43:00.000+01:00

a views

2010-12-13T09:51:00.000+01:00

Grandmother and the place called home.

2010-12-12T15:32:00.000+01:00

March

2010-12-12T15:29:00.000+01:00

Ghosts:

cousin's room

March, Białystok

2010-12-08T12:10:00.000+01:00

Welcome in Białystok...

February, Warsaw

2010-12-08T11:55:00.000+01:00

I ♥ winter

2010-12-06T14:34:00.000+01:00

Never fall asleep in a public transport.

2010-12-05T22:40:00.000+01:00

Julia & Natalia

2010-12-05T22:35:00.000+01:00

February, Białystok

2010-12-05T21:36:00.000+01:00

Mad Alice Ordinary Photography

2010-12-05T20:36:00.000+01:00

Due to a growing distinction between my work, a distinction between my artistic photographs and my more everyday ones, I’ve decided to start another, separate blog. That’s why I created a new blog, Mad Alice Ordinary Photography.

The main reason to run this photographic blog was of course the difference of aestetical criteria of my works. The aesthetics I prefer to use in my artistic works at Mad Alice Photography are more planned and highly controlled by me. It’s not about how things are but about how I see them. Yes, it’s highly egocentric. My ordinary photography is quite the opposite. In some kind of way I let my photo camera capture the images by itself. Framing, exposing, etc. is less important. It’s more about showing everything as the human eye sees it. Rapid glances, careless framing, suddenness. My role is restricted to pressing the shutter button. I let the things happen without my intervention.

It all started when I found my first photo camera ever in a drawer some time ago. It was Olympus Mju II. It was a spontaneous gift from my uncle at the airport, when he was on his way back to NY. He asked "do you want it?" and I said "sure, why not?". It was quite expensive and good camera at that time. It's cheap now but it still takes good pictures.

I’ve remembered about it when I got tired of all those big photo cameras that you need to pack and unpack all the time and you can’t take photos fast enough. Mju is perfect. It’s small. It’s light. It has great optics. You can act fast. And it’s so discrete that the most people don’t even notice when you take a photo.

And it what photography is about, isn’t it? To be some kind of spy, spying people and their lives, not intervene in any way at the same time. If you don’t want to be an intruder, you need to be invisible. Just hide and shoot. It’s an opportunity that a small photo camera gives you. People don’t get scared. You don’t need to point at them or ask to not to move or wait for a minute.

So, after bringing my Mju to life after years of sleeping in the bottom of a drawer it was natural I’ve started to take it everywhere with me. It keeps me company over a year now.It has a small defect. The lens makes light leaks and creates a vignette. But honestly, I don’t care about it. It makes the photos even more authentic. Things like unsharpness, “wrong” exposition or neglectful framing doesn’t matter as long as you can see what the photograph is about.

With a time this manner to take this careless pictures started to transfer from my Olympus to my Canon camera. It isn't as surprising as with Mju but the manner of taking rapid shoots stayed the same. But Mju II is my main photo camera with which I shoot most of the pictures published in this blog.

The images shown on Mad Alice Ordinary Photography, as you can already guess, won’t be perfect. They will be surely very raw. Maybe it’s because the way I see things or maybe it’s because the things around me are imperfect and raw and need to be shown it that way. Haven’t answered it yet.

Anyway, there’s some kind of deep need inside of me telling me to take as many pictures as fast as I can because these moments and faces won’t last forever. And only photography can keep them alive for a little bit longer. The form doesn’t matter A much as the subject.

Enjoy my ordinary world.

Mad Alice