The second exhibition of photographer Piotr Bratosiewicz has opened in the prestigious interiors of the Hotel Warszawa. The exhibition is accompanied by the premiere of his first photo album. The artist’s previous exhibition, On the Road to Every Country in the World, presented in April 2024 at the Warszawa Hotel, attracted several thousand visitors.It was the largest presentation of Bratosiewicz’s work to date and was met with great interest from the public and critics.
The new exhibition includes 50 photographs taken in 37 countries. These are the same works featured in the album, which is both a summary of the artist’s activities to date and a form of making his work available to a wider audience.
Piotr Bratosiewicz
Traveller and photographer, author of the Collecting Stamps project, whose aim is to visit all 193 countries of the world. At the age of just 34, he has already visited more than 160 countries. In search of unique shots and himself, he has travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometres across South America, North America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia. One of the main elements of each of his trips is photography. It often determines the route and itinerary wherever he goes. Looking for places and people to photograph, both the familiar and obvious and those completely undiscovered, is his passion.
About the album
This album is an extraordinary opportunity to discover the farthest corners of the world. It contains almost 200 photographs from 77 countries. Selecting them from over a million files stored in the author’s archives was no easy task. This is just a handful from everything he has seen – a subjective selection based on emotion. The author reached for photographs that move him in some way and evoke memories. Some of them present abstract and surreal images – full of minimalism and symmetry, an aesthetic close to his heart. In their case, the form becomes more important than the location or subject of the photograph. In others , on the other hand, it is the stories behind them that are most important – the emotions of the location, anecdotes, trivia or information.
Whatever the content, however, all the photographs show the world through his eyes. The album is a visual diary – a record of 10 years of travel and work, a kind of memoir with which the author wishes to show how unusual the world is. The entire work is enclosed in 400 pages of top-quality double-coated wood-free paper with matt white and exceptional fluffing, and then covered in a hard cloth binding made of natural materials. Its colour is the result of mixing colours and dyeing the materials to achieve a colour that perfectly reflects the colour of the natural canvas. The materials we assembled forproduction took almost a year to arrive, flying in from all over the world and visiting countless printers before we found the one that could print it in the right quality.
The album is available at www.bratosiewiczalbum.com from 6 November 2025.
source: press materials
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