Czas (nie)zatrzymany. Fotografia protestu a doświadczenie oparte na ruchu pamięci
(Un)Stoppable Time. Protest Photography and Experience Based on a Memory Movement

Summary/Abstract: In Poland the years 2020–2021 were marked by protests – the Polish Women’s Strike, Youth for Climate, Black Lives Matter, demonstrations of the LGBT+ community as well as numerous demonstrations organised by other smaller communities. One of the factors linking those events were accompanying photographs – both “professional” and amateur; situated between political activity, space of appearance and personal narrations, as well as reality dominated by technology and symbolic practices they composed an ambiguous form of taking part in protests, a demonstration medium. The author attempts to follow the way in which protest photography becomes in time linked with the document, testimony, souvenir, and already forgotten images, while simultaneously expanding the very act of protest. The presented reflections were based on observations of street events, accompanying media coverage, conversations with participants, and photographs documenting demonstrations.

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