Quotes by
Jerzy Tadeusz Lewczynski

I think that a photograph transmits much more signals from the past than the view of reality of that time.

The endless number of photographs thrown away from automatic machines seemingly levels our sensitivity to the surrounding reality; however, after many years when human lots fulfill, they will also become the recording of memory!

Further development of photography is the ‘birth’ of a negative. That most truthful witness became a particular soul of photography and up to the present fulfills the role of the most faithful trustee of the mystery of transmitting light. The negative has never constituted an object of such interest as a print. Virtually no one was trading negatives, and its presence in life is usually restricted to lying in drawers and hiding places.

Looking 'inside' a photograph, I always try to unravel the secret of the presented being, all the joy and sorrows, and first of all mysterious human fate.

It is good to be a discoverer of the unknown gulfs of photographic ocean of human oblivion!

Among many aspects of photography, one seems the most important and still unappreciated. Namely, the ability to convey the memory of the past.

The fate of people depicted in a photograph and bringing up photographic memories for me is a kind of prayer and sighing.