We welcome you today at 7:00 p.m. to the Manggha Japanese Museum of Art and Technology for screenings of Lotte Jacobi – A Film Portrait directed by Gary Samson, and Annie Liebovitz – A Life through the Lens by Barbara Liebovitz.

We also remind you that the post-competition Press Photo of the Year 2009 exhibit is still going on at the Stained-glass Museum on ul. Krasinskiego, under the patronage of Sigma ProCentrum and the SDP Press Photography Club.

With the weatherman predicting another rainy weekend and next to nobody heading out of town, you might consider actively spending your time in the city. Today’s guests at Photomonth will be: Beata Łyżwa-Sokół – “Gazeta Wyborcza” (Poland), Krzysztof Miller – photographer, “Gazeta Wyborcza” (Poland), Harry Hardie – HOST Gallery (UK), Mikołaj Komar – “Kmag” (Poland), Jim Casper – “Lens Culture” (France), Karolina Sulej – “Exklusiv” (Poland), Łukasz Trzciński – photographer, Visavis.pl, Imago Mundi Foundation (Poland), Anna Theiss – “Dziennik” (Poland), Martin Kollar – photographer (Slovakia), Aleksandra Vajd – photographer (Slovenia), Filip Nidenthal – “Podróże” (Poland), Robert Serek – “VICE” (Poland), Sebastian Kustra – “FUTU” (Poland), and Bill Kouwenhoven – “HotShoe Magazine” (Germany).

The time has come for the Portfolio Review!

Sigma ProCentrum would like to invite all lovers of photography and mountaineering to an author’s meeting with Jacek Kudłatym, which is taking place today at 17:00 at the Klub Masada (ul. Skawińska 2). The meeting, part of the Photomonth in Krakow festival, will be accompanied by Kudłaty’s photography exhibition Wspin Shot.

In 1982, in the village of Zasań near Myślenice, I witnessed an attempt to start up a machine for ploughing up potatoes. The machine was homemade by a farmer from an SHL motorcycle. It looked ridiculous: handlebars at the back from the motorbike; no back wheel, in place of which was a ploughshare; the motor had been moved to the front, on a metal paddle wheel apparently taken from some kind of agricultural machinery. I stared in disbelief at the farmer’s struggle. I couldn’t begin to imagine that this construction would work. Since in rural Poland I had already seen a variety of handmade machines, I thought to myself that it would be worth documenting.
(Łukasz Skąpski Series and typology as a method in art, doctoral thesis, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, 2005)

Yesterday we had the chance to meet and talk about some of the most important texts in photography theory, and today we present a book by Allan Sekula. We will also have a chance to stop and wonder: When did photography become an art? The evening will bring another Photomonth concert, this time with Basia Bulat.

For English speakers and anyone who wants to practice their language skills, we'd like to invite you to a meeting with Johan Swinnen today, and for book-lovers we've set up a discussion on canonical texts in the theory of photography.

Citizens of Culture is an informal volunteer civic movement to increase spending on culture to at least 1% of the state budget, and to change the principles of cultural management and financing.
This movement has come about as a response to the current state of cultural funding, which puts Poland at the tail end of the countries of Europe.

With the weekend's openings behind us, we've survived a real British invasion: the few dozen special guests we invited were unable to hide their astonishment at how popular photography is in Krakow. We had to stuff people into some of the galleries, there was no sitting room in the meetings with the artists, and the curator tours drew people aged five to one hundred. Even the weather turned out - after another rainy day, the sun beamed on the Starmach Gallery opening.

photo by Kuba Ceran

It’s the last day of the weekend’s openings. Most of the exhibitions are already open, but they’re always worth revisiting – especially since it could be in the company of Mark Power or Anna Fox.

The weekend of Photomonth in Krakow openings continues. Yesterday saw the opening of the first exhibitions. Today you shouldn’t have any trouble finding us all around town – from Korona Stadium to the clubs and streets of Kazimierz.