lokal_30 is happy to present the works by Zuzanna Janin, Diana Lelonek and Joanna Rajkowska at Paris Photo 2025. We will be waiting for you in the booth D14 which we are sharing with Jednostka Gallery.
„Follow Me. Change me. It’s Time” is a series of Zuzanna Janin’s early works from the mid-nineties in which she experimented with laminated photographs, creating overlapped, scattered, sculpted photographic objects. The artist photographed fragments of women’s bodies (genetically related to her), ranging from one year to almost 100 years old. She created a touching narrative about the bond between generations of women from the same family.
A series of collages by Joanna Rajkowska, created after October 7th, 2023, juxtapose views of ruined Warsaw with photographs from contemporary Gaza, also doomed to annihilation. Rajkowska’s work diagnoses a multi-level global crisis – climatic, humanitarian, political, and above all, related to the collapse of the hierarchy of values and unprocessed trauma, which makes the victim a ruthless predator.
Diana Lelonek set out to develop photographs of the Alpine glaciers on large sheets of fabric with the use of the light-sensitive cyanotype technique, which relies on exposing a layer of cloth or paper coated with this substance to the sun. One of the first people to use this technique was the British botanist and photographer Anna Atkins. Atkins’ achievement, as well as the Prussian blue obtained through the use of cyanotype, which resembles the colour of glaciers, inspired Lelonek to use this sunlight-dependent technology.
Project supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.
1. Joanna Rajkowska, „Birds in Gaza I”, 2024, collage on paper, 37,7cm x 35cm
2. Zuzanna Janin, „FOOT (O f.)” from the series “Follow Me, Change Me. It’s Time”(Nelly), 1995/2025, archival photography, laminated digital print, 21 x 30,5 cm
3. Diana Lelone
k, „Solarstalgia de Ferpècle 3”, 2024/25, cyanotype on cotton textile, 136×140 cm