Damian Noszkowicz
Gossamer (Signed)
Published by Gossamer éditions, 2022
Size: 17 x 23.5 x 4 cm
413 Pages
Hardcover
Limited edition of 500 copies.
Arriving in Paris from Poland at the age of 22 in 2014, without any knowledge of French and having grown up in a village far removed from the cultural effervescence of a metropolis, Damian very early sought to find his way and define his identity as an artist. Having long practiced amateur photography in his country, he began working as a freelance photographer.
In 2020, when he found himself out of work due to the pandemic, he took advantage of the time thus freed up to go through his personal archives, which included not only a profusion of photographs, but also the poems he had written since the age of 13, first in Polish and then in English from 2011, and discovered between his poems and his photos a common thread that had hitherto eluded him.
This is how GOSSAMER was born, a book that brings together 150 photos and 43 poems that bear witness to his journey over the past seven years and express the emotion inspired in him by the beauty of the male body, the austerity of the Icelandic landscapes, the images of Poland that haunted his childhood, special moments of his new life in Paris, or scenes of nature that remain imprinted on his retina.