This photograph is one of a series where Jolanta Dolewska presents photographs she has made alongside those taken by her father. She does this without identifying whose image is whose and, in this way, has reclaimed her father’s pictures as her own. The photographs in Reservoir are all hand printed in varying sizes, black and white, and depict a range of people, places and objects.
Jolanta Dolewska (b. 1979, Warsaw) lives and works in Glasgow. She graduated from Royal College of Art, London and has shown in England, as well as more widely in Europe and in South Korea. In 2013, she included in The Photographers’ Gallery’s recent graduate show FreshFaced+WildEyed with work from the project holding II.
This photograph featured as part of the Touchstone programme (2012-2020). Each display consisted of a single photographic work on the Eranda studio floor where visitors were invited to respond to the question 'What do you see?' using the cards and pencils provided. A bench was placed in front of the work, encouraging people to spend a little longer than they might usually. The programme was part of a wider series of projects and activities related to visual literacy.
A selection of audience responses to the question 'What do you see?'
