Przemek Zajfert in seinem BlackBox, Schwabinger Weihnachtsmarkt in München

Przemek Zajfert (born 1959 in Poland)
For more than twenty years, I travelled through the cities of Europe with a mobile camera obscura—as a street artist, an explorer of images, and a chronicler of fleeting light.
Schwabing Christmas Market, Munich, December 2016

Current Projects

Heliography Project 1827–2027
Since 2014, I have been working with heliography, the original photographic process invented by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Since 2023, I have used it to transfer images from Google Street View onto metal plates—in search of the last authentic photographs in a world where every image could be synthetic.
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No Words – The Darkroom as Shelter
On 24 February 2022, the day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I began a daily ritual: for 365 consecutive days, I exposed the same negative in my basement darkroom—a woman’s hands holding a blank sheet of paper. The prints were intentionally left unfixed and continue to change to this day.
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Both In Time
Camera Obscura 2005/1–∞ is complete: twenty years, 2072 holes, an end in 2025. What remains is the principle – two holes, one negative. It continues as Both In Time: a pinhole camera for two people who know each other.
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The Story of Józef Łebski
My grandfather was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, deported to Auschwitz, and died in May 1945, only days after the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Using digitized archival documents, I am reconstructing the final months of his life—for my mother, who lost her father as a child.
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