Landscape Photography
by Tomasz Przychodzień

I don’t value social media. I consider them rather a necessity. To me, Instagram or Facebook are tools made only to support their development, deprecating what is the most valuable in photography. Basing their system of operation on a mechanism of unreflective liking the things done by people who ‘like’ what we do creates a vicious circle in which the quality of created art becomes less and less important. I use social media absurdities on a daily basis and the number of likes is growing steadily. However, this is irrelevant in the context of the quality of images I create and the very process of their creation. Paradoxically, it was thanks to social media that many people got to know my photographs and the conversations we started online quickly moved to an offline world. If you ever find one of my social media profiles – write a message, ask a question, leave a trace. I like talking about photography and I value the contact with people which goes beyond mass likes clicking.