In this series of portraits Martynka wants to portray the dark side of an innocent child and look into the future of their face capturing an element of the adult they will mold into. This will be the sixth year of this ongoing project. Every few years, Martynka re- photographs the children she still has access to. In 2007 she made a video to accompany the portrait series, in which four kids stare directly into the camera and reflect on issues they will encounter in their adulthood. The video is titled 'ME'.
Martynka Wawrzyniak was born in Poland in 1979, moved to New Zealand at the age of eight and has been a residing in New York for the past ten years. Martynka was selected as one of PDN’s 30 emerging photographers to watch in 2006. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York magazine, Purple and other international publications. Prior to committing to photography full time Martynka was the co-founder and editor of the arts and culture publication Issue magazine during the period of 1999-2004.
Martynka Wawrzyniak
KIDS
Envoy Enterprises
NYC, USA
June 5, 2009
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