Birds of Paradise is a photo series I made on the streets of Los Angeles between 2018 and 2020. It focuses on the people living on the edges of society, the most vulnerable, the outcasts, the victims of circumstance. This project is about people with complex stories, struggles, and very often failure.
With my camera, I walked the streets and found my subjects where they lived on sidewalks, in cars, on the beach. We always had a short talk and then a few moments to take the photo. One can manipulate with words, but I really believe that a camera can catch a moment of truth.
I always approached people who lived by themselves. The lonely wolves. This project is dedicated to Loni a former model and actress, whose beautiful, sensitive eyes and quiet strength remain with me, and to everyone who struggles every day just to survive.
PROJECT: BIRDS OF PARADISE by Marta Kosiorek (LA 2019)
PROJECT: BIRDS OF PARADISE by Marta Kosiorek (LA 2019)
PROJECT: BIRDS OF PARADISE by Marta Kosiorek (LA 2019)
BIO
I am a freelance photographer living in Berlin.I completed the prestigious one-year Sputnik Photos Mentoring Program in Warsaw, Poland. My main area of work is documentary photography shifting toward magical realism.
My long term project about polish prisons “Three square meters” have been selected for the 2017 Aperture Summer Open, On Freedom in Aperture Gallery and also received KTR 2017 (prestigious Polish Advertising Contest) nomination for Best Personal Photography Project .
In 2019 my work was a part of Der Greif Blame the Algorithm 12 issue guest edited by Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg.
My work was also a part of a group exhibition in the Stadtmuseum München, Germany conceived around Der Grief issue 12 In Munich, Germany.
