Photobook Side Effects

07.01.2014

This is my book debut.  Side Effects reflects a phase of creative work dedicated to exploring the relationship between man and nature. All photographs published in the book were taken during my solo paramotor and gyroplane flights, mainly around the Tri-City area in northern Poland between 2007 and 2013. The book's premiere took place on January 10, 2014 at Leica Gallery in Warsaw.. 



Curatorial text for the book and exhibition. 

Our relationship with nature is a complicated one. We farm the land and the land feeds us. We harness the earth and the earth lets us to settle on it. We exploit the planet, and give us its raw materials and water. We admire the changing beauty and generosity of nature. We subdue it, destroy its beauty, drain its resources, poison and rape it. Only rarely does it manifest its power - through an exploding volcano, flooding rains, earthquakes.

Soaring above, Kacper Kowalski watches nature’s struggle with civilization. He records it in abstract shots – at times painterly, at times graphic, architectural in their order and structure. The struggle has no winners and the outcome – however unnatural or inhuman – is surprisingly beautiful and harmonious.

This requires an eye of an artist. The strength of Kowalski’s images lies in the fact that our delight in them precedes understanding of what we’re looking at.

Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka,
the project’s curator
Warsaw, January 10th, 2014

editorial footer
photography: Kacper Kowalski
design: Edgar Bąk,
curator: Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka
text: Maciej Kuźmicz
publisher: Rafał Łochowski, Migavka
Producer: Leszek Marcinkowski

Year: 2014, Warsaw, Poland
Premiere: 10 stycznia 2014,
Biding: twarda
Language: polski, angielski
Pages: 132
Sizes (width x height x thickness) - 335 x 230 x 20 mm
ISBN: 978-83-935798-2-2


The Side Effects project has evolved and manifested itself in the form of gallery, museum and festival exhibitions. It has been interpreted in an audiovisual piano concerto. The process of its creation is the subject of a separate page, available here. A follow-up book, Side Effects 2.0, summarising a further 10 years of work and reflection, is in preparation.

AWARDS & HONOURABLE MENTIONS FOR THE PROJECT (UNDERLINED WITH REFERENCE TO THE BOOK) 

  • Pictures Of the Year International (76 POYi) | award of excellence 'Enviromental Policy' | 2019
  • Pictures Of the Year International (73 POYi) | award of excellence 'Side Effects' | 2016
  • World Press Photo 2015 | 2nd prize, long term project 'Side Effects'| 2015
  • Pictures Of the Year International (72 POYi) | finalist, photobook 'Side Effects' | 2015
  • PDN Photo Annual 2015 | photobook 'Side Effects' | 2015
  • Grand Press Photo 2015 | 2nd prize, single | nature | 2015
  • World Press Photo 2014 | 2nd prize, story 'Toxic Beauty' | nature | 2014
  • Pictures Of the Year International (71 POYi) | 3nd prize, story 'the Depth of Winter' | nature | 2014
  • Sony World Photography Awards | 2nd prize, story 'the Depth of Winter' | landscape | 2014
  • Grand Press Photo | 1st prize , 'Toxic Beauty' story | nature | 2014
  • BZ WBK Press Photo | 2nd prize, story 'the Depth of Winter' | nature | 2014
  • Moscow International Foto Awards | 3nd prize, book Side Effects | nature | 2014
  • Best of Photojournalism (NPPA) | 3rd prize, single | feature | 2013
  • Grand Press Photo | 1st prize, single | sport | 2013
  • Gdańsk Press Photo | honourable mention, single | outside the region | 2013
  • Gdańsk Press Photo | 1st prize, single | dialy life | 2013
  • Pictures Of the Year International (69 POYi) | 3nd prize, story, Toxic Beauty | nature | 2013
  • Emirates Photography Competition | 1st prize, single | nature | 2013
  • BZ WBK Press Photo | 1st prize,  Toxic Beauty story | nature | 2013
  • Grand Press Photo | 2nd prize, story | nature | 2013
  • Leica Oskar Barnack Award | shortlisted 'Flood from the sky – Sandomierz 2010' story | 2011
  • Grand Press Photo | 1st prize, story | nature | 2011
  • Gdańsk Press Photo | Grand Prix 2011 | 2011
  • Gdańsk Press Photo | honourable mention | Outside the region | 2011
  • BZ WBK Press Photo | 2nd prize, story | nature | 2011
  • Press Picture of the Year KFP | nomination | single | 2011
  • International Photography Award (IPA) | 2nd prize | architecture | 2011
  • International Photography Award (IPA) | honourable mention | nature | 2010
  • Sony World Photography Awards | nomination, 'plus minus' series | 2010
  • Sony World Photography Awards | nomination, 'toxic beauty' series | 2010
  • Sony World Photography Awards | nomination, 'tracklog' series | 2010
  • BZ WBK Press Photo | 1st prize, story | nature | 2010
  • Gdańsk Press Photo | honourable mention | Outside the region 2010
  • Gdańsk Press Photo | 1st prize, story | civilisation | 2010
  • World Press Photo | 2nd prize story | Arts and Entertainment | 2009
  • Nikon Photo Contest International | 75TH NIKKOR ANNIVERSARY AWARD | single | 2009
  • International Photography Awards IPA | Nature Photographer of the Year | 2009
  • International Photography Awards IPA | 1st prize | nature | 2009
  • International Photography Awards IPA | 2nd prize | nature | 2009
  • International Photography Awards IPA | 3rd prize | pecials | 2009
  • International Photography Awards IPA | 20 x honourable mentions | 2009
  • Grand Press Photo | 2nd prize | nature | 2009
  • Grand Press Photo | 3rd prize | nature | 2009
  • Press Picture of the Year KFP | nomination | single | 2009
  • BZWBK Press Photo | 3rd prize | nature | 2009
  • Gdańsk Press Photo | 1st prize, story and honourable mention | civilisation | 2009
  • Album for Gdańsk | II International Photography Contest | award | 2009
  • Album for Gdansk | I International Photography Contest | award | 2008
  • Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards IPA | 9 x honourable mention | 2008
  • Gdańsk Press Photo | 1st prize, story and honourable mention | civilisation | 2008
  • National Geographic Poland | honourable mention, single | 2007

SELECTED PROJECT EXHIBITIONS

  • Side Effects | PHOTO BASEL | ARTE Giani Basel, Switzerland | June 2022
  • Blick von oben - Wasser und Schnee | (with Werner Klotz) Arte Giani | Frankfurt, Germany | Sept-Oct 2021
  • OVER, Side Effects | AIPAD | ATLAS GALLERY | NEW YORK CITY | USA | 2019.04
  • OVER, Side Effects | GOOGLE GALLERY - Los Angeles HQ Office | GALERIE XII | USA | 2019.03-05
  • Side Effects & OVER | Galerie XII | Los Angeles | USA 2018
  • Side Effects | OVER | Art Elysées - Art & Design | Photo12 Galerie | Paris, France | 2018.10
  • Side Effects @ TERRA VIVENTE | Velathri Art Gallery | Borgo Pignano, Włochy | 2017
  • Side Effects | International Bienniale of Photography | Bogota, Colombia | 2017 
  • Side Effects Concert | Spoleto Festiwal | Charleston, USA | 2017
  • Herbst & Winter | Arte Giani | Frankfurt, Germany | 2017
  • Artist of the Year | The Curator Gallery | New York City, USA | 2017
  • Artist of the Year | The Curator Gallery | New York City, USA | 2016
  • Side Effects | Muzeum Ziemi Chełmińskiej | Chełmno,  Poland | 2016
  • Fade to White | The Curator Gallery | New York City, USA | 2016 
  • SALON ZÜRCHER | Zurcher Gallery | Paris, France | 2016 
  • Wings of Fantasy New European Photography | Millennium Monument | Beijing, China | 2016 
  • Side Effects | group exhibition in Hillerod Art Society | Hillerod,  Danemark | 2016 
  • Above and Beyond | The Curator Gallery | New York City, USA | 2015
  • Side Effects | Leica Gallerie Salzburg | Austria | 2015
  • Side Effects | The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography | Moscow, Russia | 2015
  • Side Effects | Arte Giani | Frankfurt, Germany | 2015
  • Side Effects | Muzeum of Gdynia | Gdynia, Poland | 2015 
  • over 80 World Press Photo exhibitions arround the World | 2015
  • Side Effects | Leica Gallery Warsaw | Warsaw, Poland | 2014
  • Side Effects | Photoville Festival | New York City, USA | 2014
  • Materia Prima | Kauno Kolegija | Kowno, Lithuania | 2014
  • Materia Prima | Museum of Applied Arts | Vilnius, Lithuania | 2014
  • over 80 World Press Photo exhibitions arround the World | 2014
  • Materia Prima | Klaipedos kulturu komunikaciju centro parodu rumai | Klaipeda, Latvia | 2013 
  • Materia Prima | Munnkerupkus House | Copenhagen, Danemark | 2013 
  • Nebenwirkungen | Polish Institute | Dusseldorf, Germany | 2012
  • At the Other Side of the Baltic Sea | House of Europe | Stockholm, Sweden | 2011
  • Flood From the Sky | Leica Gallery | Warsaw, Poland | 2011
  • Harsh Winter | Pauza gallery | Kraków, Poland | 2011
  • Flood From the Sky | constance exhibition in Snadomierz, Poland | 2011
  • At the Other Side of the Baltic Sea | European Comission | Helsinki, Finland | 2011
  • Poland Has a LOT to Offer | Polish embassy in the Prague, Czechia | 2011
  • Flood from the Sky | outdoor exhibition in Sandomierz, Poland | 2010
  • Materia prima | Galeria Bielska BWA, Poland | 2010
  • Polska on air | Waterfront Hall | Belfast, Ireland | 2010
  • over 80 World Press Photo exhibitions arround the World | 2009

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS (UNDERLINED WITH REFERENCE TO THE BOOK)