A 1950s-style lounge of chairs behind a slatted screen, blue-toned print
Paris — Photography, Film, Mixed Media

Marek Majewski

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Self-portrait of Marek Majewski holding a medium format camera

Marek Majewski is a Paris-based visual artist working with photography, film, and mixed media. His practice explores fragile states of perception, moments when reality becomes porous, uncertain and begins to shift.

His work takes the form of quiet visual sequences where memory, dreams, and inner experiences gradually emerge. Through subtle atmospheres and fragmentary images, he creates spaces of suspension that invite viewers to pause and project their own interpretations.

Silver Gelatin · Lith Print

Buried Dreams

Buried Dreams explores the fragile persistence of images that seem to surface from memory rather than from direct observation. The photographs are produced using lith printing on silver gelatin paper, a darkroom process where the image develops in highly diluted lith developer, producing deep blacks and luminous highlights.

The photographs appear unstable, oscillating between presence and disappearance. The series reflects on the way memories surface and fade, leaving only fragments behind.

Solo publication, Tourdogs — 2022
Lith print portrait emerging from grain, half in shadow
Close portrait of a raven in profile, lith print
Birds scattered across a foggy lith-printed sky
Nude figure looking down, lith print, first of a pair Nude figure in motion blur, lith print, second of a pair
Cyanotype & Platinum-Palladium on Washi

Somnium

Somnium is an ongoing body of work exploring dreams, memory and altered states of perception. The images are produced using photographic processes such as cyanotype and platinum-palladium printing on Japanese washi paper, whose texture and tonal qualities contribute to the soft, pictorial atmosphere of the series.

Figures, plants and symbolic objects inhabit a suspended environment where time appears uncertain and fragmented. Somnium unfolds as a contemplative landscape where photography becomes a way to give shape to subtle inner experiences.

The series also exists as a self-published artist book — 80 pages, singer-sewn with a visible blue thread, in an edition of 100.

Flowering branch, deep blue cyanotype on washi paper
Bouquet of dried flowers in a vase, platinum print
Windblown grass against a dark ground, first of a pair Bust portrait in warm platinum tone, second of a pair
Cherry blossom branch, platinum print on washi, first of a pair Profile portrait of a tattooed woman, platinum print, second of a pair
Close-up of the Somnium artist book's exposed Swiss binding, blue thread stitching
Super 8 Film Stills · Darkroom Enlargement

Doors

Doors is an ongoing project combining photography and moving image. Frames extracted from Super 8 film are presented as still photographs, enlarged through darkroom experiments using traditional photographic printing on light-sensitive paper.

The project explores the fragile psychological space surrounding the act of creation, a tension between the desire to reveal and the instinct to conceal. Figures and gestures appear suspended in states of uncertainty, suggesting moments when identity feels unstable and exposed.

Figure bathed in an orange glow, Super 8 film still
Abstract light leak in false colour, Super 8 film still
Close-up of an eye in warm tones, Super 8 film still
Face bound in red, Super 8 film still, first of a pair Face bound in red, Super 8 film still, second of a pair

Exhibitions & Publications

Exhibitions

2026The Analog Festival — La Galerie Le Bonheur est dans l'Instant, Paris
2026Mirages et Instantanés — Openbach Galerie, Vincennes
2025Analogmania Festival — Timișoara, Romania
2025Mirages et Instantanés — Openbach Galerie, Vincennes
2024Sehschärfenbestimmung — RG10 Gallery, Vienna
2023Marché de Noël — Galerie Echo, Paris
2023Anarchy No.1 — Gallery Ephemere, Tokyo
2022Hot Shots — PLACE M, Tokyo
2021Downtown Link Gallery, Omaha
2020Ilford Photo 135 — The Base Point, Tokyo
2020A Few Street Shots — Frame Tokyo (online)

Publications

2026Anarchy No.3 — Ephemere, collective
2025Anarchy No.2 — Ephemere, collective
2024Somnium — self-published
2023Anarchy No.1 — Ephemere, collective
2022Buried Dreams — Tourdogs, solo
2021Monomania: Love in Double Exposure — ed. Anne Murayama
2021The Family of Grain — Grainzilla, collective

Articles & Interviews

2023Alternative Processes: Lith Printing — Lomography
2021Lomography Awards — The Ten and One 2020, Breaking Boundaries
2020A Tokyo Story with Marek Majewski — Lomography
2020Documenting Isolation — Lomography