Andrzej Dragan

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An imitation of the so-called "Dragan Effect"

Andrzej Dragan (born May 16, 1978 in Konin ) is a Polish photographer and physicist.

Life

Dragan studied physics in Warsaw, Oxford, Amsterdam and Lisbon. In 2001, his thesis was recognized as the best master's thesis in Poland. In 2001 and 2002 he received a grant from the European Science Foundation . In 2005 he received his doctorate with a thesis on quantum mechanics . He then received the position of a scientific assistant in the field of “ Quantum Optics and Atomic Physics” at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Warsaw . In the 2008 academic year he was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London . Since 2010 he has been at the University of Nottingham . In the same year he received a two-year scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Education for outstanding young scientists.

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Dragan's published photographs are all portraits. The sessions with the models are only brief, he says: "I don't like taking photos." However, he devotes up to a month to post-processing a photograph. His pictures are compared to Flemish painting. The light he uses creates both sobriety and gloom, which gives the details strength and clarity. The colors used looked pure. He avoids capturing his models in one movement. He reworks his pictures with Photoshop , among other things to assemble different recordings in one picture. Dragan comments on his way of working that it is similar to painting, only that he uses a digital brush. He does not add any new elements, but works out what is already there and emphasizes it. Dragan also works as a commercial photographer, such as B. for Converse , Fairy , Pilsner Urquell , Avon and Playstation 3 . He uses Canon digital SLR cameras and lenses such as the Canon 10D .

Exhibitions

The exhibition “Allegories & Macabresques” consisted of 18 portraits that were created between 2004 and 2007, by Jan Peszek , Jerzy Urban , Andrzej Mleczko , Jan Riesenkampf , Mads Mikkelsen and David Lynch , among others . The portrait of Lynch appeared on the cover of the Italian Zoom magazine . Although part of the definition of a portrait is to want to depict something of the person being portrayed, Dragan distances himself from this intention: “People expect portraits to reveal something about the person and their story. I don't know if that's true. [...] If it were so, it would be impossible to portray someone you do not know. [...] If people don't want to call my pictures portraits, that's okay. ”His working credo would have been a Portuguese saying: “ Those who see faces do not see hearts . ”( “ Those who see faces do not see hearts . ” )“ Allegories & Macabresques ”exhibition venues were Warsaw, Copenhagen, Milan, Krakow, Lublin, Posen, Amsterdam and Konin.

His works were also part of various group exhibitions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official Facebook profile
  2. ^ Website of the University of Warsaw
  3. ↑ a b c Art is artificial - an interview with Andrzej by Paola Bonini. In: Andrzej Dragan: Information on the Allegories & Macabresques exhibition . 2007, accessed on February 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Tomek Sikora on “Allegories & Macabresques” on Andrzej Dragan's website.
  5. ↑ Andrzej Dragan on "Allegories & Macabresques" on his website.
personal data
SURNAME Dragan, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Konin , Poland