Purgatory

• Prize
  Silver in Fine Art/Nudes
• Photographer
  Lukasz Spychala
• Technical Info
  Mamiya RB67 Pro-S | Mamiya-Sekor C 50mm | Kodak Portra 800
• Photo Date
  12.07.2020
• Website
  https://www.lukaszspychala.pl/

My series is about a moment in our lives when we are left alone with ourselves. The piles of empty chairs symbolize people who have had a great influence on us, sometimes good, sometimes bad. The story that I wanted to tell with the frames is a kind of retrospection that each of us carries out in our thoughts.

• Biography
  Born in 1995 in Wroclaw, Lukasz Spychala "Koneser" is an award winning photographer from passion. He has already collaborated with over a hundred models from different countries. His pictures have been included in several collective exhibitions, published in many international websites (such as PhotoVogue) and magazines, receiving awards and building quite a reputation as an analog photographer. In fact, he shoots with the traditional Japanese Mamiya RB67 Pro-S medium format camera. His favourite types of photography are female portrait and nude photography, in which he excels.
• Awards
  2024: • Category Winner "Technique" - "Technique Photographer of the Year" Title; Gold in Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards 2024 in "Technique/Lomography" category • Silver in Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards 2024 in "Fine Art/Conceptual" category • 2nd place in The Independent Photographer - 2024 Black & White Award • 2nd place in Art Limited - AWARDS PORTRAITURE 2024 • Grand Prize: "Amateur Fine Art Photographer of the Year" Title; 1st place in 10th Fine Art Photography Awards in "Fine Art" category • Fine Art Category Winner in 500px Global Photography Awards • 2nd place in Annual Photography Awards 2023 in "Fine Art: Conceptual" category • 1st place - "Nude Photographer of the Year 2023" Title in Monochrome Photography Awards 2023 in "Nude" category • Silver in Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023 in "Fine Art-Nudes" category 2023: • 1st place in Chromatic Photography Awards 2023 in "Nudes" category • 2nd prize in XXXIII Krajowy Salon Fotografii Artystycznej - ZARY 2023 • Gold in Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards 2023 in "Fine Art/Erotism" category • 2nd place in 9th Fine Art Photography Awards in "Conceptual" category 2022: • Category Winner "Analog / Film" - "Analog / Film Photographer of the Year" Title; "Jury Top 5 Selection" Award; 1st place in International Photography Awards 2022 in "Analog / Film-Fine Art" category • 2nd place in 8th Fine Art Photography Awards in "Nudes" category • 3rd place in Art Limited - FASHION & MAGAZINE AWARDS 2021 • 2nd place in Art Limited - NUDE AWARDS 2021 2021: • 1st place in I Miedzynarodowy Konkurs Fotografii by Zabkowickie Centrum Kultury i Turystyki in "Fotografia konceptualna" category • Silver in Tokyo International Foto Awards 2021 in "Fine Art-Nudes" category • 2nd place in Neutral Density Photography Awards 2021 in "Fine Art: Nudes" category • 1st place in Art Limited - COLORS 2021