Surreal Photography: Illusions and Dreams | Demetriusz Wenglarczyk

I wanted to create a series of photographs that depict something intangible and mysterious, but at the same time familiar, something that is inside us but we don’t know how to put it into words., how to grasp it. During the foggy november evening I went out of the city and used familiar things like car lights and trees, and with the right framing and adding light to some of the images in post-production, I created an oneiric setting.

A Tricity-based polish photographer with a dreamy heart, a love for indie aesthetics and a nostalgia-filled visual perspective. Born in 1990, he grew up in the first years of Poland’s democratic transition, in an atmosphere of great change and hope for a better future. He was brought up in a world that felt still analogue and local, although rapidly changing into digital and global, which largely influences his work and way of perceiving life. Raised on a love of foreign films and music, and a sense of being constantly judged and undervalued, he took up photography in his late twenties, when he no longer felt the need to prove himself to others. Photography freed him from expectations and gave him back the initiative. In 2024 his photographs have been selected to be exhibited in Blank Wall Gallery in Athens, Greece. He is publishing his works and writing about photography on the website photographonpaper.com.