Polish photographer Dr Bartosz Nowicki has had books and exhibitions throughout the UK and Poland but a personal collection of work taken with his daughter Ewa shown at FfotoNewport Gallery in Market Arcade in Newport until the end of the month is probably closer to his heart than any other.
Bartosz writes in an introduction to the exhibition at the gallery
In 2010 I started to photograph in Guinea, where I travelled to get married to Binta my Guinean born fiancé. Since that first arrival I have always felt a part of the family. That is why my approach to photographing in this corner of West Africa didn’t differ from the one I had while photographing in Poland and Wales. I was shooting whatever was happening in my nearest surroundings.
In 2018 on our second trip to Guinea, we were accompanied by our daughters Ewa and Komilo. We travelled again in 2022 but this time I wasn’t the only one with a camera. Ewa was shooting with her Fuji Instax and as the new images appeared one at a time I suggested we work together on an exhibition and zine.
This is the result of this collaboration