Identity Is A Secondary Thing

• Prize
  Bronze in Book/People
• Photographer
  Anna Hartman Ksycinska
• Photo Date
  2019-2020

„Identity is a secondary thing” is a documentary project about young people from Polish town Rzeszow. They spend time together seeking inspirations, experimenting with external appearance and sexual preferences. They are full of joy, but under the superficial colors and bravado, I could find deep layers of vulnerability, fears, loneliness and suffering of lack an acceptation and support. They try to compensate these feelings creating strong bonds inside the group, which gives them the opportunity to innocent hug, but also to look for first sexual relations, not necessarily heterosexual.

Anna Hartman-Ksycinska is a Polish photographer based in Rzeszow, Poland. She is a medical doctor, pediatrician and anesthesiologist and a member of Polish Women Photographers Club. Her photographs were presented at the individual and group exhibitions in Poland, Hungary, Spain, UAE, Italy and on-line (VASA, ZEKE, The Egde of Humanity, FK Magazine). As a photographer she is mainly focused on social issues. She often tries to investigate and depict social injustice and try to look through the eyes of those who lack social acceptance or struggle for establishing their place in society.