Marzena Pogorzaly

Marzena Pogorzaly has already been praised for her astonishing studies of Antarctic ice and for her searching portraits of writers. Al Alvarez has written of "her steady, loving eye" and "faultless sense of composition"; Neal Ascherson considers her "one of the most distinguished and original polar photographers of her generation" with "a vigilant instinct for the numinous'"; Simon Schama has described her images as "startling works of art - haunting, powerful, mesmerising." In this new work,...See more

Marzena Pogorzaly has already been praised for her astonishing studies of Antarctic ice and for her searching portraits of writers. Al Alvarez has written of "her steady, loving eye" and "faultless sense of composition"; Neal Ascherson considers her "one of the most distinguished and original polar photographers of her generation" with "a vigilant instinct for the numinous'"; Simon Schama has described her images as "startling works of art - haunting, powerful, mesmerising." In this new work, she offers us a valuable portrait of a moment in the history of Cuba, and a rich contribution to the distinguished history of street photography. See less