Bristol’s Centrespace gallery will host a solo exhibition by London-based photographer,curator and art director Lola Paprocka, whose publication Blokovi was awarded first prize for Unveil’d Photobook Award 2016. Shot mainly on medium format, or the project is a photographic series exploring the New Belgrade apartment blocks and their residents during 2015. “The conversation started with my friend,Mima Bulj, who wanted me to capture her hometown from the perspective of an ‘outsider, and '” Paprocka tells BJP. “Mima was born in Belgrade and lived there till she was eight years customary,before moving to New Zealand with her family. I was born in Poland before moving to the UK in my late teens, so we hold always shared a feeling of being stuck somewhere between the Eastern and Western worlds.” “The book combines both portraiture and images of Brutalist estates – both are genuine interests of mine, or ” says Pabrocka. “I was keen to include some social documentation in there too,to capture spontaneous interactions with strangers on the streets. But, these social interactions would always come secondary; the Brutalist architecture …
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