Chapters Overview – M Album – Warsaw
M Album – Warsaw is divided into five thematic chapters, each offering a different visual and emotional perspective on the Warsaw Metro. Together, they form a narrative about light, movement, and human presence in the underground city — a space where time flows differently and reality becomes layered.
I. Ghost Town
A cinematic, dreamlike vision of the metro — dark, silent, and suspended in time. The light seems to breathe through concrete and glass, while shadows blur the line between architecture and imagination. Reflections, empty corridors, and fleeting silhouettes create an atmosphere of urban solitude, as if the city had momentarily stopped.
II. Subspaces
A study of the metro’s architecture: walls, ceilings, corridors, and platforms — the geometry that normally escapes our attention. Through careful framing and attention to detail, this section reveals the rhythm and symmetry of transit spaces. Light glides across tiles and metal, uncovering textures shaped by function but transformed into abstract compositions.
III. (DIS)MEETINGS
A visual story of people passing by and coming closer — thousands of encounters and separations that happen every day in the metro. Here, faces are intentionally blurred and indistinct, dissolving into glass reflections or motion. The portraits become anonymous, universal — about presence rather than identity. They reflect the fleeting nature of human contact in a world constantly in motion.
IV. Subportraits
Portraits integrated into the metro’s fabric — faces merging with steel, cables, and light. These images erase the boundary between person and structure, between body and system. Each frame shows how humanity quietly embeds itself in the architecture of the underground. The soft focus and motion blur enhance the sense of disappearance, as if individuality were absorbed by the rhythm of the place.
V. One Roll
The story of a single roll of film — damaged at the factory, marked by scratches and flaws. The imperfections became part of the work’s visual language, connecting frames into a continuous, tactile narrative. Long scratches on the film run parallel to the streaks of train lights captured in long exposure — a dialogue between accident and intention, error and beauty.
Together, the five chapters of M Album – Warsaw create a portrait of an invisible city — one that exists beneath our feet, in movement, in shadow, and in memory.