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Dorota Korwin-Szymanowska

Dorota Korwin-Szymanowska

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Frozen bed

Recently cold has penetrated my creativity as well. It froze the imagination and the will to create for some time. Now I slowly come back to the vivid, but coolness is still visible in the colors that some of my photos take.

I hope that despite this cold, they can still keep you warm.

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Winter Fairytale

My reality changed into Winter Fairytale. In one night the world around turned into a real land of snow. Land of silence. Land of coldness. I love it! Even if there are logistical problems at such moments, for example with picking up the parcel from the courier who is unable to reach my cottage. So... come with me for an ordinary walk connected with duties and everyday life outside the world. :)

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Fly with the Wind

I met this Oak about 5 years ago, when I moved into the place I live now. Everytime I was walking by, I dreamed about creating images with him. I tried few times. But... there weren't THESE photos. My life, has teached me patience. So I've been waiting fot the perfect day. And it came. With extremely strong Wind, with pieces of snow melting between the dry thickets of the grass, with shy but strong rays of Sun dancing between heavy clouds.

I danced and absorbed the raw energy of the sur...

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Werewolf

“Wolves hate werewolves.'
'What? That can't be right! When she's wolf-shaped she's just like a wolf!'
'So?  When she's human-shaped she's just like a human. And what's that got to  do with anything? Humans don't like werewolves. Wolves don't like  werewolves. People don't like wolves that can think like people, an'  people don't like people who can act like wolves. Which just goes to  show that people are the same everywhere.' said Gaspode. He ass...

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Becoming a Wolf

“Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Body is an Ocean: Love and Other Experiments 

As I got wonderful gift, I decided to create a small story with it. At some point, Wierzba came to me, so we started to tell story together. As she is a czechoslovakian wolfdog, I thought s...

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Rape Pill: friends & support

I don’t want to make anyone feel sorry about me. I’m strong enough to get up from mental knees again. I can’t turn back time and change my past, but I can try to change the future for others, at least. I’m writing this chapter not only for victims, but mainly for friends of victims. When you’ll have close person harmed this way – please, just be for them, especially in the very beginning.

I won’t write how it is in such cases, because everyone is different and everyone fee...

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Holiday laziness

I hope you all spent holidays as you wished. I... was lazy and I was loading my mental batteries while creating. So, as usual. :)

I admit... recently I run around my house with mirror and experiment with it to many many photos! 

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Ancient Statue

What about sculpturing human body by the simplicity of lights and shadows? Black and white? Countless shades of grey?


My first experiences with new lens, which I’m still learning to work with. :)

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Sol

Szczodre gody! Słońca wstanie! Z wróżbami, z wróżbami
My szczodraki rozdajemy garściami, garściami
Hejże ino dyna dyna Swarożyc on bóg dziecina
Na niebie, na niebie

Sol Invictus 

Tomorrow will be the shortest day of the year. After this day the Sun rises, the days get longer. Do I celebrate Winter Solstice? Everything depends on the year,...

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Rape Pill

Dark club, lot of people, some nice stranger talk to you and buy you a drink. This is a movie scenario which almost everyone sees, when hear “rape pill”. I had the same idea about it, and as I am anti-social creature, don't go to such places, so it doesn't concern me. But reality isn’t a movie...

Phencyclidine (PCP), also known as “angel dust”, is a mind-altering drug that may lead to hallucinations (a profound distortion in a person’s perception of reality). It...

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Frozen Tears

"Write like there's no tomorrow". Sometimes Patreon encourages to share thoughts in charming way. :)

So, if there's no tomorrow I want to invite you for a small December walk. To the frozen land, where strong Wind squeezes tears which the Frost instantly turns into pure crystals. To the land, where there is nothing than coldness and only the bravest friends can be met during their own buisnesses. Where the living green can be found only as a mistletoe.
Winter is coming in he...

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Low light

One room, so many possibilities! I really adore low light dancing in my cottage! In autmnal/winter season, when, in addition, the whole interior smells of musky incense, the atmosphere becomes almost mystical.

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4:00 in the morning

It's 4 in the morning. I can't sleep. Again. I lie in bed with my eyes closed, pretending that the world doesn't exist, that I will squeeze into the reality of dreams for a moment. After a few, maybe several dozen minutes (who knows exactly how quickly seconds pass when you lie in the dark emptiness of your dragging thoughts...) I take a book. Maybe it will tire my eyelids enough? The December Wind plays cold stories on the old, tired logs of my cottage. Ok, the Wind won. I can see the outlin...

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SepticFlesh

Where does this title come from? Well, this is the band that played while I was creating this set, which can be divided into two parts - with natural light during the day and with artificial light from the lamp, after Sunset.


I must say... being a photographer and model at the same time is nothing compared to being a photographer and two models, on which the light plays completely different, at the same time...

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Willow Stories

Sometimes I just wish to hide myself in the calm hug full of safety, silence, warmth. And disappear in a long deep sleep.

In the beginning of the year, during one of my long, lonely walk, I met this amazing Willow Tree. She told me thousands of marvelous tales! I promised myself to coma back to her and try to catch these stories into frames. Can you feel the tale of scratching deer? Can you see the tale of tiredness by the time? Can you hear tale of family of ...

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November Mornings

Quite often they are very dark, especially when sky is full of heavy clouds. Lightning the candles to morning tea is way better idea than electricity, in my opinion. Interior of my cottage becomes so lovely cozy then. And every corner tells diferent mysterious story about shadows playing with lights.

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Baking

Recently I had to bake bread (I really enjoy baking bread, by the way!) and thought... why don't do it in company of my camera? I admit - usually I don't make such big mess around me...


Bread was delicious - full of of grains, dried fruits and herbs from my garden. And joy! :)

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Yoga

Sometimes I'm surprised how amazing might be human body. I've started "training yoga"(without any trainer - I just do as much as I feel I can) about week ago. And I can't wait to see what I'll be able to do in, for example, month!

Training naked i s extremely freeing not only for body, but also for the mind. And... I don't like clothes at all, so it's also very natural for me. :)

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Roots of Spells

The air smells more and more cold every day, long evenings fill the interior of my cottage with a beautiful melancholy of playing candles. I decided to share with you the small impressions that create my reality, in which my imagination gives birth to new pictures showing shapes of Spirit.

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Phoenix

Who am I?
I don’t know.
I am the change.
Evolving. Growing. Unstoppable.
I am the path of the journey called „life”.
I am the shyness but it does not mean I am not the courage too.
I am fragility but also stubborness.
World can hurt me, but never break me.
I am like a phoenix.
Strong enough to reborn.
Always.
I am the power of the Harmony.


Dancing with the cirle of Fire has been in my head for long time but it required time, special ...

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Wolfish

The theme of carrying a wolfdog on my back was born in my Soul long time ago, when I started to be model for others (I even had such photoshoot but it's too... sterile in my opinion). Wierzba and her disease make this idea even more sense. She has extremely huge dysplasia because of which she should practically not walk, but happily doesn't know about it, so vets are admired that she has such a strong spirit to be able to run wildly.

That's why after seven years I decided to show the wi...

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Water Veins

“I am the daughter of a water goddess. I am a woman with water in her  veins and power in her breeding. I am a woman who makes things happen,  and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won  crown, (...).”
/Philippa Gregory, The White Queen/

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Short girl

From the very beginning being a short girl mean for me being creative and agile to climb over cupboards and other furniture to reach things that are easily achievable by normal people.

So... why not to show my simplicity in creative way? :)

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New lens

Today I was testing new lens, which gives me more possibilities and also new lessons about photograhing the body. I hope you forgive me my hesitating about the color or black & white version of some photos...

Enjoy with the end of weekend!

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Mirror Selfie

Just wishing you a wonderful weekend, my Dears! I’m working on few new sets with the great light of my wild cottage.

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Full Moon atmosphere

This time always turns on even harder sensual creativity in me and the desire to play with the light on the body in beautiful way.

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Table Manners

They say that lady should know how to behave, also at the table. Sit straight, don't put elbows on a table and many many others rules. I tried to remember about savoir-vivre but I'm afraid that this time, my Wild Soul won. :)

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Rawness

Created by untamed Wind and elusive Mist.
Born in depths of the Forest.
Full of pure empathy.
Tpuched by darkness.
Still unbroken.
Not belonging to human world and its rights.
Wild Soul.

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Good old classic

I hope you don't mind such simple classic. I like to play with light in black and white. When gentle rays surround the delicate lines. When black and white fight soundless in battle of shades of greys.

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Walk into Autumn

Strange things are happening in the country where I live. Women's rights are starting to become less significant. I don't like to talk about politics. I don't like politics or any church crammed into my life. That's why I ran away from all this mess, far to the life in the calm Forest. And today I invite you for a small walk with me. Walk which took me into amazingness of Autumn. Which made me dance with Mist between the Trees. Walk where I met traces of many creatures (unfortunately also hor...

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