Everything is so beautiful; the photographs, the text, the different printings, the choice of paper, the personal layout and the very distinct design.

ANDERS PETERSEN

Thanks to the exceptionally free artwork, this very intimate approach has given rise to an unusual, but very convincing, photo book.

ULRICH RÜTER, LFI

DECEITFUL REVERENCE is an exceptional presentation of the meanders of the human internal transformation. Igor Pisuk leads us through the painful process of getting out of alcohol addiction, discovering a new self, dealing with the surrounding reality, seeking the closeness of other man, and – finally – finding love. Everything is embellished with unusually suggestive photographs, showing human nature with no embarrassment.

The process Pisuk got through was a specific therapy and directing the camera lens on himself was a substitute  for alcohol: “The photography let me express the chaos that was in my head, name different emotions and states, observe the accompanying me loneliness, alienation, love, all kinds of fears and hopes,” – says the author of the book. – “DECEITFUL REVERENCE is a photographic record of visions, emotions, dreams, nightmares as well as experiencing of the simplest elements of reality in an organic, intense, semi-magical way. The worlds of inner feelings mix here with the outer ones, shaping and affecting the first ones.”

The book, which marks the end of years of the registration of the author’s experiences, pushes the reader on a psychological roller coaster. The dense and dark atmosphere of the pictures doesn’t let go, doesn’t let catch a breath, doesn’t give a moment of respite. With every page of the book, flawlessly designed by Aneta Kowalczyk, we are going deeper and deeper into the recesses of the consciousness and subconsciousness of“the man who keeps getting lost, loses ground under his feet, falls, but step by step regains the sense of space, first reaches himself, then manages to get outside – into the human world.”* What did he find there? Whom he met?

* Taken from Agata Pyzik’s text accompanying the exhibition of Igor Pisuk @ Pix.House Gallery in Poznań (November-December 2018).

AWARDS

• PHOTO-EYE BEST BOOKS 2019 – Favorite Book of the Year chosen by Dewi Lewis
• BOOK PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR – Moscow International Foto Awards 2019
• GOLD WINNER - Moscow International Foto Awards 2019's Book category
• GOLD WINNER - Moscow International Foto Awards 2019's Book Fine Art sub-category
• Honorable Mention - Grand Press Photo 2019's Photo Book of the Year category
• Official Selection for Photo Book Exhibition – APhF:19 Athens Photo Festival 2019
• Shortlisted - Best Photography Book of the Year Award - PHotoESPAÑA 2019
• Honorable Mention - International Photography Awards™ 2019

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IN THE PRESS

DOFOTO.SK (in English)
Przekroj.pl (in Polish)
natemat.pl (in Polish)
LFI (in English)
Le blog de Fabien Ribery (in French)

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Polska wersja eseju Agaty Pyzik dostępna TUTAJ

Photographs: Igor Pisuk
Book design: Aneta Kowalczyk
Opening essay: Agata Pyzik
Music: Bartosz Dziadosz

Cover: soft (cardboard + screen printing)
Format: 224 x 300 mm
Number of pages: 152
Number of photographs: 102
Language version: English
Proofreading: Ben Borek

Printing: Argraf, Warsaw (Poland)
Edition: 
50 x 2 with baryta print (180x240 mm) signed and numbered by the artist and a CD with ambient music composed for the book

Publication date: November 2018
Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS
ISBN: 978-83-939917-9-2