Dinner Time

Artist: Bronek Kozka
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Dinner Time

This image has been shortlisted for the Moran Photographic Art Prize.

This was shot in an amazing house, it was caught in a time capsule….the property was recently sold and the furniture sold off too, this shoot is all that remains. I wanted to look back, not through the rose coloured glasses we usually gaze back with, but to look at the tension that lies just below the surface. The 50’s and early 60’s have this all to perfect image, surface image that is…

Dinner Time belongs to the following groups:

In the Moment

Jo O'Brien, 10 months ago

Lordy! The light on that brunettes hair is simply amazing. In fact, the light in general is absolutely stunning. You almost can’t believe it’s a photograph, it seems so much like a painting. Your models are in fact actors. The expressions are perfect. This has been so well put together. The styling is impeccable. Bloody brilliant
SKVee, 10 months ago

Bronek, sweet capture – this type of image was recently on show at the NGV from the Guggenheim, yours even more telling. I particularly love the boy/girl inquisition about to take place
Jo O'Brien, 10 months ago

SKVee, you are referring the the Gregory Crewdson shot yes? I can see why, it’s that strong narrative that runs alongside the image and makes you question. It’s the relationships between the characters, it’s the amazing light, it’s the choice of colours. GAH! Love it.
Jeff Burns, 10 months ago

Fabulous work this is spectacular
emapearl, 10 months ago

i love it. :)
Paul Vanzella, 10 months ago

You know I dig this!!!!! – One day I want ot make images like this OUTSTANDING WORK!
Cheri McEachin, 10 months ago

I have to say this is fantastic- I love everything about it.
Ronya, 10 months ago

This looks like a still from a (rather disturbing) movie. I would so love to press the play button on this to see more of the scene unfold. Amazing work.
Peter Nowak, 10 months ago

A live still-life, brilliant work!
Pilgrim, 10 months ago

You are seriously a genius. The texture and atmosphere in these shot is just beyond belef. Absolutley stunning.
Adrian Donoghue, 10 months ago

Love the story, great work.
aljen01, 10 months ago

Fantastic, the “stiffness” in the dad is amazing, you can feel what is happening.
iceprincess, 10 months ago

Fantastic!!
joolz, 10 months ago

This is amazing. The shot tells such a story. So many looks and expressions happening.
Heather Rivet..., 10 months ago

fatnastic
Nigel Lewington, 10 months ago

Excellent
wolfllink, 10 months ago

Amaizing work. I can’r beleive that this was still in a house!! Great Image and sutch a diffrent way to refelect back to thoes times. This is wonderful!
nick board, 10 months ago

A true masterpiece, shot me back tp my childhood, I’m sitting at that table, and the room is very familiar, awakening forgotten memories and formative years.
Deri Dority, 10 months ago

Wow, an amazing image. I love the dynamic range and the lighting in this. Beautifully executed.
Olga Savvidis, 10 months ago

Great piece, but I cannot understand why it has been listed as a “latest” work for so long…reposting?
Darren Burdell, 10 months ago

Stunning Work!!!!!!! I could look at this for ages and ages. A masterpiece.
Philip Rogan, 10 months ago

great casting of both light and house but most of all an execellent concept from start to this excellent dark tension filled finish. Wonderful.
jerry alcantara, 10 months ago

amazing you are realy good on this
Patricia L. Ba..., 10 months ago

This is wonderful. It speaks volumes.
beb05, 10 months ago

wow, the lighting, the feel, the whole set up of this photo is amazing….. great way to nail those expressions and the time!
Peco Grozdanovski, 10 months ago

Adorable work … Bravo!!!
AlienVisitor, 10 months ago

Great stuff Bronek.

AV
Norman Pogson, 10 months ago

Great to see authentic work, especially not only the subject matter, but the excellent quality of lighting, a real pleasure to look at.
kunisan, 10 months ago

It is strangly refreshing to see classical rendition of the scene like this, and also another one of this series.
What painting had done long time ago was took over by photograph. Like painting, which since then increasingly pursued its own identity by exploring nitch areas like line, color, plane and all the way to minimalism, photography also followed the suite. It is about time that we do some wholistic artworks, once again integrating all the elements of visual grammar.
I myself have been trying to create artwork along this line, and I am very pleased to find that there is a photographer who seems to share my thought. My comment, I hope, is not too way off the mark.

kunisan
Scott Ruhs, 10 months ago

I don’t think I could say it any better than the others here. Jo hit it on the head straight from the get go. I also agree with Paul that this is a level of Photography to aspire to. This brings to mind the “Stepford Wives”. Another amazing image!
HaRaKiRi, 10 months ago

Words can’t express how amazing I think this image is. Everything about it is just beyond perfect, the lighting, the facial expressions, the way my eye flows so smoothly through each detail of the image and there is just something so delicate and pure yet sensual about the exposed skin on the brunettes back. Really stunning.
Lindsay Blamey, 10 months ago

This is my fav image. Just love the subtle yet intense (you do this so well) interaction between all the characters. Love this style and your lighting is superb, sets an incredible mood that draws the viewer in I could and have looked at this images for hours… I’m so inspired by this series. Six Feet Under in the 60’s.
Kevin Kroeker, 10 months ago

Stunning work! What a fantastic shoot this must have been! You are a fantastic photographer! Great work
Basia McAuley, 10 months ago

The direction is perfect, the colour and light is perfect… I just want to know what happened next, the mood is so real and intense!
Jonicool, 10 months ago

Love this…Excellent work!
nic78, 9 months ago

Wow, if looks could kill. You’ve done an awesome job capturing the mood and the tension.
ltruskett, 9 months ago

I want to be a fly on the wall to listen to their dinner conversation. To say this image is sensational is accurate. LOL. Instant fave. Well, Well done.
Ellie Winds, 9 months ago

the tension you’ve created between the father/son (?) is incredible. the images as a whole are fantastic – the story is so strong and the emotion – i look at the son and start to cringe a little for him.
nanny, 8 months ago

i agree with Megan, awesome
jemimalovesbigted, 6 months ago

you are a genius!
EdgeOfReality, 6 months ago

After looking at the models expressions, there does seem to be a little underlying tension. Very well captured and acted out.
shawhouse, 6 months ago

excellent
C.C. Arshagra, about 1 month ago

Oh my …everyone is naked as a mask wearing the fear of alive!!

I hope to write a poem on this one someday.
“Naked as a mask” I’ll keep you posted. ~cc
Nuh Sarche, about 1 month ago

this is a fantastic picture!