About

Blackbox Photo is a photo collective focused on event documentation. It was started by two photographers, Joanna Combik and Joanna ‘frota’ Kurkowska, in the fall of 2008.

We have been providing our clients with professional event coverage from various events. These events include major music festivals (i.e. Heineken Open’er, Off Festival, Jarocin Festival, Cracow Screen Festival and Coke Live) and single concerts (i.e. The Police, Slayer, Kraftwerk, Ladytron, Katie Melua, Faith No More, Timbaland, Nightwish, Nouvelle Vague and Pearl Jam). Click here to view the full list of artists and festivals we have covered. We also photograph theatres and promotional events.

We have prepared documentations for film festivals (i.e. Off Camera), workshops (i.e. Soundedit) and tv programmes (two seasons of Letnia Kawiarenka Wirtualnej Polski). We also collaborate with the organisers of the EuroPride 2010 festival – we provide the pre-festival documentation.

Our offer also includes photosessions, gathering materials for the sponsors and off-screen documentation. We also prepare images for CD/DVD covers and booklets.

Please note that the price of the commission depends on complexity of the shot and additional expenses. A Polish version of the CV can be found here.

Clients

We have we have published and cooperated with such clients as webportals (Onet.pl, Wirtualna Polska, Trójmiasto.pl, Etnosystem.pl, Nowa Muzyka, GameTrade, Resident Advisor, Gazeta.pl, T Mobile Music, Super Fajna Polska, iBedeker), clubs (Ucho), national institutions (Polska Filharmonia Bałtycka im. Fryderyka Chopina w Gdańsku), artists (Natalia Lesz, Katarzyna Borek and Tomasz Bednarczyk), concert agencies (Good Music Productions), foundations (Art Industry), casting agencies (MPictures), labels (12k, Mystic Production and Few Quiet People) and magazines (The Wire, Bliza, Interface, Ha!art and Tygodnik Powszechny).

Gear:

In our work we use both Canon and Nikon. The cameras of our choice are Canon 5DmII and Nikon D700 with a wide range of lenses.

When not working on digital media, we use a wide range of analog cameras like LOMO Fisheye 2, Olympus Penti 2, Pentacon Six, Polaroid 636 and SX-70 or single-use cameras from Kodak and Agfa.

Awards:

Joanna ‘frota Kurkowska:

- Third place in Koncertowa Fotografia Roku 2008 (Concert Photo Of The Year 2008) contest in the “Journalist’s Choice” category.

Exibitions:

Joanna Combik:

- GENDER BENDER – The exibition took place in April and May in Caryca (Kraków, Poland) and UFA (Warszawa, Poland). The photos were portraits of several people who underwent a queer methamorphosis. The aim of the exibition was to make fun of cultural and gender stereotypes.