Selfportrait

Going through this three-month creative process taught me to respect myself, to appreciate my sensitivity, and to recognize my femininity and beauty.

As I looked at the different parts of myself—not just the beautiful and perfect ones—I stopped being ashamed of my body and myself. What became more important than my external appearance was the fact that I felt wonderful inside.

Photography became my therapy, and it remains so to this day.

This experience led to the creation of the project Photography Healing which is designed to help women return to their essence, freedom, and confidence.

I began to liberate myself from the constraints of my mind through dance.

5Rhythms played a significant role in healing my relationship with my body. Through movement, I deeply immersed myself in the darker parts of my subconscious and released what no longer served me.

I was finally able to look in the mirror again, feeling light and comfortable with myself.

Through contact improvisation, I experienced building relationships in ways that were entirely different from those I had known before.

photo.Katarzyna Słomka Muskatie

After high school, I decided to study Creative Photography at the Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design.

It was there that my eyes were opened, broadening my horizons of seeing, feeling, and experiencing.

It was also there that I first encountered nude photography. Models would come to sessions and, without hesitation, undress, revealing all their beauty.

I admired this freedom, yet what I saw through the lens was often a tense body, knowing exactly how to pose for the perfect shot.

I felt a lack of genuinity and truth.

The topic of art and the body has been present in my life since my early years. I matured faster than most of my peers, when I was about 10 years old. Both physically and mentally.

I grew and so did my breasts. Very early on, I was sexualized by both my peers and adult men.

I didn’t fit into my environment and often felt terribly uncomfortable in my body.

This left a big mark on my psyche, for the next 9 years it was difficult for me to look in the mirror.

I started my adventure with the camera when I ventured into stage, landscape and portrait photography at the age of 16. I experimented a lot, it gave me a lot of joy, but I also often hid behind the lens.

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fot.Kateřina Zvěřinová

photo.Kateřina Zvěřinová

photo.Kateřina Zvěřinová

Photo. Sandra Kamińska

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ZUZANNA FRANKIEWICZ

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I am a woman with a keen eye and the old soul of an artist. Absolutely in love with women and their power.

I follow the path set by life and myself. With an open mind and all senses, I fully experience life, embracing the lessons that await me on my journey.

My world is sensual, filled with colors, shapes, scents, and sounds.

I believe that the path to truly living life is to fall in love with your essence, not forcing yourself to fit into some ideal mold. I realized this not long ago when I allowed myself to break free from the bonds of my own expectations, beliefs, and the shame of not being perfect.

This is a lesson I have gone through many times before, and probably not the last time. With each moment, I evolve, change, and discover ever deeper corners of my consciousness.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by women. Even as a young girl, I would paint them, sculpt them, admire them, secretly falling in love with femininity without even realizing it at the time.

I never liked doing things by the book, and I never really fit into any mold.

When I was in my early teens, thanks to my mother, I discovered Vedic Art – the art of intuitive painting. During a four-day workshop, a whole universe of unknown realms to explore opened up before me. Since then, I have become even less inclined to fit into any predefined patterns.

My relationships, especially with women, were often rooted in jealousy and a lack of honesty. In the new reality I found myself in, I was able to experience touch, smiles, kindness, and admiration for another person. It was an enormous relief, as if the world suddenly opened up to me.

In my final year of photography, I began working on my diploma project titled "The Nature of Flesh." It was a series of 10 nude self-portraits that allowed me to fulfill myself as an artist and, at the same time, fall in love with my own body.