Her whole series works on similarities in a artistic/poetic but realistic way.
The veins are related to the topographical maps, lightning, or crackling of a dry earth, the fingerprints resemble the circles of a tree trunk, the moles to the stars of our skies, and the the legs to two trunks stuck by their roots. A simple and emotional work that wants to remind us how close our link with nature can be.
Agnieszka is based in Krakow, Poland, the young photographer made the breakthrough in 2015 when she was participating in the contest TIFF Festival in the ‘DEBUTS’ section, as well as the Sputnik Photos workshop in collaboration with Filip Springer. The same year, the photographer opened her first exhibition titled ‘Emotional Landscapes’ in a small gallery in Krakow. Lepka’s analog pictures show various subjects including close-up shots of human body parts, landscapes, and everyday objects. In her ongoing series titled ‘Human vs. Nature’, Lepka works with the similarities between human beings and Mother Nature. Veins are put into relation with topographic maps, fingerprints resemble a tree trunk, and cacti are compared to scrubby beards.
A series of “emotional landscapes” brings together several stories that have one thing in common – portraying human emotion in a difficult moment of life. It is a psychological study, consisting of expressing the internal state through the body, or external conditions. Agnieszka set the silhouette within the rocky space. This space is consistent for the whole composition, and arrangement of bodies thoughtful and conceptual. Deliberately avoid repetition. The figure in her photographs mostly shows her back to the audience, and shuns eye contact with the viewer, also leaving a dose of understatement.
Agnieszka discovers she likes a dirty and raw space in which she explores. The photographer tries to keep her view and characteristic colour tone for me. This cycle was present at her first author’s exhibition entitled “Emotional Landscapes” in the gallery Kraków café named “Stolica” in September 2015.
Agnieszka quotes that it was a very personal moment and also this series is very important for her, it gives her much more confidence. Agnieszka prefers analogue photography as well as traditional picture because it’s learning conscious and adult framing images, but all awards contributed to the deepening of working with digital photography, which she trying every day.
In 2011 Agnieszka achieved a diploma in Photography in General School of Fine Arts in Zielona Góra. Now she still is developing her skills and knowledge, looking and getting closer to getting to know herself and trying to find her style in photography. Agnieszka quotes that in the future, she would like to study the direction associated with photography.