Contemporary Artist • Camera Obscura
Portrait © Norbert Steinke 2025
I’ve spent years learning to work with time rather than against it. These photographs are what happens when I stop trying to extract moments and simply let duration accumulate.
I work in complete darkness while moving through space. Light writes itself onto paper over several seconds. What appears isn’t a frozen instant but layered time—the way experience actually feels before we try to pin it down.
These artworks don’t freeze time. They let it accumulate on the paper the way experience accumulates in memory—as layered duration, not isolated instants.
Maciej Markowicz (born 1981, Poland) has been working with his signature mobile Camera Obscura technique since 2015. Based in Berlin, his works have been shown at Tate Modern, London, with recent solo exhibitions at the Polish Institute Berlin and a duo show at Anne Clergue Gallery, Arles.
His works are held in art collections including the Musée Français de la Photographie and the German Art Collection of the Bundestag, and have been featured in L’Œil de la Photographie and the British Journal of Photography.
In 2017, he received a grant from the Goethe-Institut and the German Federal Foreign Office for a year-long Camera Obscura Boat European tour.