Chalon-sur-Saône, Niépce’s birthplace

Przemek Zajfert – born in 1959 in Poland – has been living and working as a freelance light and photographic artist in Stuttgart since 1985.
A defining feature of his art is the inclusion of viewers in his projects (Camera Obscura 2005/1-infinity ,The 7th Day).
In his work, Zajfert employs both the pinhole camera technique and heliography, a process developed by Nicéphore Niépce between 1822 and 1827.
In 2012, he launched the participatory project The 7th Day. Given that Niépce’s influence is a constant presence in Zajfert’s work, this project is based on another photographic experiment conducted by Niépce in 1816. To date, more than 13,000 people have participated in the project, creating photographs with exposure times ranging from at least seven days to several years. Places, objects, and moments leave their transformed imprint on the photographic paper, acquiring a new aesthetic dimension through overlapping layers of time.
Zajfert’s kinetic installations, inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies, aim to capture the poetry of the moment.
He is the author of several photo books and artist books, including Camera Obscura Tübingen, Camera Obscura Heidelberg, and Monolith.

For more about Zajfert’s work, visit the following links:
zajfert.de
camera-obscura-art.com
the-7th-day.de