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We present the third and last film this year from the series "Conversations about Photography", which we made as part of Obiektywnie śląskie for the 15th anniversary of the project. This time we meet an icon of reportage photography, a doctor of art, a photographer with over thirty years of experience in cooperation with international and Polish press titles, including 20 years of photography for National Geographic. We talk with Tomasz Tomaszewski, among other things, about when a photo becomes a photograph - one that moves and that also speaks about the photographer, not only about the photographed, that arouses compassion, and the emotions evoked in the recipient can be transformed into doing good. There will be Bresson's decisive moment and the backstage of trips to distant corners of the world with incredible adventures. First of all, we will talk about life in which photography is immersed, life that photography constantly observes, which it documents, and about the fact that there is no one universal recipe for being a good photographer. We will also learn about Tomasz Tomaszewski's fascinations, not only the photographic ones. Anna Kokolus, coordinator of the Obiektywnie Śląskie project, talks to Tomasz Tomaszewski. Video production: Radosław Kaźmierczak, Szymon Król, sound: Szymon Król. We had the pleasure of spending an entire day with Tomasz Tomaszewski during the workshop entitled "How to be fire, not a moth? Or how to construct a photographic reportage in an original way", which took place in November this year in Katowice. TOMASZ TOMASZEWSKI. He holds a Ph.D. from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He is a member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, the Visum Archiv agency in Hamburg, the National Geographic Creative agency in Washington and the American Society of Media Photographers. He uses his thirty years of experience working for the largest Polish and world press titles, including over twenty years of photographing for the National Geographic magazine, experience gained while working as a juror in photography competitions, including three World Press Photo competitions, and several hundred photography workshops conducted. He teaches photography in Poland, the USA, Germany and Italy. He deals with press photography, and has published his photos in the most important Polish magazines and the largest foreign magazines, including: "Stern", "Paris Match", "GEO", "New York Times", "Time", "Fortune", "Vogue", "Die Zeit", "Elle". He has published several books: Ostatni. Współczesne Żydzi polscy (text by Małgorzata Niezabitowska), W szuka Ameryka (text by Małgorzata Niezabitowska), Gypsies - other people like us, In the Center, Niezwykła Hiszpan, Rzut beretem, Pewn się powietrze Przyjacielości (Attractive Atmosphere), To, co cotrwale. Górale, prawdy i wiary (Highlanders, Tradition and Faith), and has illustrated several collective works with his works. This is not the last film we intend to make as part of the "Rozmowy o fotografia" series. Materials with Tadeusz Rolke and Jacek Poremba are also available on the Obiektywnie Śląskie channel. The project is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Cultural Promotion Fund, the Silesian Voivodeship Self-Government and the City of Katowice.