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Swell (signed copy)

Mateusz SARELLO

Photographs by Mateusz Sarello

Text by Mateusz Sarello

Design by Ania Nalecka/TBD

Photo editing by Michal Luczak

Published by Instytut Kultury Wizualnej, 2013

First edition; limited print run: 350 copies, of which 300 numbered (this is n°238/300)

Linen hard cover 24+64 pages, 165 x 200mm, 42 tritone and color illustrations

ISBN: 978-83-63025-16-8

“Best Books of 2013” Photo Eye selection (Pete Brook, 10x10 Photobooks, Douglas Stockdale)
International Photography Awards, 3rd Prize in Book category
Prix de la Photographie Paris, 2nd Prize in Book Other category and 3rd Prize in Book Nature category
Best Photography Book from Central and Eastern Europe 2013-2014, European Month of Photography in Bratislava, Honorable Mention
Art Books Wanted International Award, Honorable Mention
Moscow International Foto Awards, Honorable Mention

'Swell' is a story of a break-up and of unaccepted loneliness. About going back to the same places and memories that we can't forget. At first it was supposed to be a documentary project about the Baltic Sea. So a plan was drawn up, the form was thought through, and the places to be visited were marked on the map. The photographs came about during trips together. The last joint photo was taken a little later-and a portrait on a negative ruined by the lab technician. The project no longer mattered, and the outings to the sea were now only an escape from daily life. Over a dozen colour 'postcards' have survived from the first trips. They are the beginning of this story. There is no end yet. We're about half-way.