CONVERSATIONS - PHOTO EXHIBITION

'Completely safe' photo exhibition by Rafal Nowicki

How much can be read from our eyes only? How much do facial masks restrict the way we express ourselves? 

CONVERSATIONS is a project based on the questions above, in which, over the course of four months 29 people of different nationalities, age and gender participated in individual photography sessions.

The photographer invited the participants to his provisional photography studio for an hour-long session to talk in a relaxed atmosphere. Despite the lockdown and numerous restrictions, each session became an opportunity to meet, talk, build bonds and exchange energy, and the studio eventually became a confessional where each participant could freely and openly express their emotions. 

At the beginning of the project, the author was planning to focus on capturing facial reactions of his subjects, while referring to six basic emotions defined in the 70s by the American psychologist Paul Ekman, i.e. joy,…