“Masterpiece”
Bogdan Frymorgen, fotopolis.pl

“Most notable photobook of 2023”
Viory Schellekens, photoeye.com

“Powerful”
Frédéric Martin, 5ruedu.fr

“Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ is rewritten”
Fabien Ribery, l'intervalle.blog

Go on a journey around the world in search of human nature. The World Is Where You Stop is a critical look at our reality, where good and evil, euphoria and suffering, wealth and poverty, virtue and licentiousness, coexist side by side. For over 50 years of his career, Tomasz Tomaszewski, one of Poland’s most outstanding photographers, has recorded situations that are difficult to pass by indifferently.

Shocking juxtapositions of photos, like shots from mondo films documentaries, make you reflect on the condition of contemporary man and the world he both lives in and creates. Sometimes the frames emanate the artist’s admiration for the beauty and power of nature, sometimes one can see his overwhelming fear or musings on our humanity.

150 black-and-white images do not explain how it happened that we have ended up in a place like this. Instead, they ask questions about where our world is headed and what we can expect at the end of the road.

Built as a coherent, multi-threaded story, the book is a cross-sectional presentation of Tomasz Tomaszewski's work and includes many pictures that have never been previously published.

See a video of the book on YouTube

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AWARDS

• Shortlisted for the 2023 Photo Book of the Year award within the 2024 Grand Press Photo contest
• Award of Excellence in the 81st Pictures of the Year International's Photography Book of the Year category
• Winner of the Photographic Publication of the Year category @ Fotopolis.pl Plebiscite
• The Photobook Museum's Favourite Photobook of 2023
• The PhotoEye's Favourite Books of 2023 (Viory Schellekens)
• Polish Radio 24's Glebia Ostrosci: Photobooks of the Year (Marek Grygiel)

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IN THE PRESS

• Photoszene Köln's Fotobuch-Quartett (in German)
• foto-info.pl (in Polish)
• Kwartalnik Fotografia #42 (in Polish)
• 5ruedu.fr (in French)
• lintervalle.blog (in French)
• fotopolis.pl (in Polish)
• Radio 357 (in Polish)
• perlentaucher.de (in German)

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Photographs: Tomasz Tomaszewski
Essays: Kent Kobersteen, Tadeusz Gadacz 
Book design: Aneta Kowalczyk

Photo editing: Tomasz Tomaszewski, Aneta Kowalczyk and Grzegorz Kosmala
Image processing: Aneta Kowalczyk, Tomek Kubaczyk
Translations: Agnieszka Chrościcka, Tomasz Tomaszewski and Jason Lowther
Proofreading: Ben Borek

Cover: Soft, fabric Peyer Baronesse Black + Kreativekarton Black
Paper: Munken Print White 1.8 150g

Format: 280x370mm
Number of pages: 320
Number of photos: 150 (bw, quadtone)
Language version: English

Print run: 1500 copies
Printing and binding: Argraf (Warsaw, Poland)

Publication date: May 2023
Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS
ISBN: 978-83-965969-2-5