Pre-dinner drinks

Bronek Kozka

Pre-dinner drinks

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…

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Pre-dinner drinks by Bronek Kozka
  • Jeff  Burns

    Jeff Burns

    Spectacular work
    Awesome

  • Paul Vanzella

    Paul Vanzellafounder

    This is so stunning, the art direction, concept and style… almost looks like you’ve invented a new medium here… can’t get over the way the furniture has come up, and the scenario is just exquisite… Brilliant masterpiece for me!

  • Helen McLean

    Helen McLean

    Ha! Great image!

  • Heather  Rivet  IPA

    Heather Rivet...

    outstanding

  • Paul Louis Villani

    Paul Louis Vil...

    Stunning work, has that visual impact i love! :D

  • Pamela McAdams

    Pamela McAdams

    i love your models and your coloring! excellent!

  • Jen Cannella

    Jen Cannella

    Amazing work!

  • Jo O'Brien

    Jo O'Briencommunity ambassador

    Shouldn’t there be a bowl with keys in it on that coffee table? hehehe
    I just love the narrative that is underlying in all your work and how it looks so different to everything else I’ve seen.

  • Glenn-Patrick Ferguson

    Glenn-Patrick ...

    surreal.sublime.stunning.All those very complimentary s adjectives I can’t think of.

  • BNProductions

    BNProductions

    Fantastic!

  • robbah

    robbah

    Great image. Captures the “time” very well.
    It is such a pity that we dont appreciate some things when we have them. Only upon reflection.
    RB

  • Nikki Farrow

    Nikki Farrow

    Wonderfully captured indeed. :)

  • pinkarmy25

    pinkarmy25

    Stunning work!

  • brianjarvis
  • Christian Ward

    Christian Ward

    Love it. Great work

  • Albert1000

    Albert1000

    Very nice image.

  • Jarko

    Jarko

    Spectacular work
    Awesome

  • Darren Burdell

    Darren Burdell

    This set of shots is great, your use of lighting to pick out key elements in the shots really adds to the contrast in certain areas, mix that with the styling and art direction and the way you have graded/mapped these images tonally really makes them very special indeed. I agree with Paul when he said masterpiece….awesome !!

  • hallucingenic

    hallucingenic

    this is beautiful great job

  • Anni Morris

    Anni Morris

    Interesting shot…yes definitely transported back to the late 50’s early 60’s.

  • sanne

    sanne

    very good work here

  • Will Pursell

    Will Pursell

    love it

  • Belinda Leopold

    Belinda Leopold

    Just fabulous!!!

  • nanny

    nanny

    same as my comment for “leaving” Im there

  • GregB

    GregB

    Brilliant work, bravo.

  • Liz  Spittall

    Liz Spittall

    Are we having a good time??? You captured the mood and scene very well!

  • berndt2

    berndt2

    love the brilliant Art Direction in this shot!

  • christophe

    christophe

    Wow looks like time has stopped. Excellent work Bronek

  • atrei

    atrei

    this is truly amazing! the lighting is incredible! i thought it was a painting.

    however my only qualm: the metal thing on the left, i think it is a little distracting.

    but still, top job!

  • atrei

    atrei

    also..is this hdr?

  • ltruskett

    ltruskett

    So cooool, so clever. A top job.

  • midzing

    midzing

    brilliant, I love this, well done

  • Craig Goldsmith

    Craig Goldsmith

    Masterful, this is just brilliant, everything comes together so well, amazing stuff. Shame the all the stuff has sold, I love the painting on the wall in particular it looks great, but all the elements play there part!

  • anatolia

    anatolia

    Works great. Nice collection good luck

  • nick board

    nick board

    Another superb work, evokes near-forgotten fragments of my time in that era.

  • JanG

    JanG

    Time capsule for sure! I love this series, the house, the decor, the architecture, and you have captured so many layers of emotion-just wonderful.

  • aljen01

    aljen01

    You’ve managed to recreate a stunning scene.

  • orourke

    orourke

    wow, great positioning and contrast

  • DWarren

    DWarren

    Fantastic job you did with this one, just splendid! As a child, I remember that era well, there was much more contentment then than now…..

  • shawhouse

    shawhouse

    Stunning and theatrical as hell. great capture & expressions. I love that the viewer can’t see the face of the man on the left, that we are left to fill in his reaction to the other man’s (barbed? awkward?) remark. The women’s reactions tell us that this is not a good moment. The decor is classic – an entire decade’s desperate cry for help. The pattern on the chairs repeated on the end table and whatever that thing is on the left is truly strange. The muted tones are ideal here. It’s as if the picture is trying it’s damnedest to look normal – this is the insane posing as the mundane. very cool image. spectacular work!

  • Beth Taylor

    Beth Taylor

    i like it :) for some reason it reminds me of divorce.. or lawyers.. or some sort of marital crisis.
    the layout and costumes are amazing.
    lovely use of lighting
    fantastic :P
    xoxoxox

  • Deri Dority

    Deri Dority

    This is another masterpiece. I can feel the tension from all of them.

  • maka1967

    maka1967

    shawhouse’s comment is the most profound i have ever read at RB. excellent work and excellent comment.

  • maka1967

    maka1967

    great work! remind me of Anton Chekhov. a photo can be the stage of human drama.

  • Clare McClelland

    Clare McClelland

    Where would we be without the talent of exceptional photographers to capture the surreality of reality! Not to mention immortalising whole eras in a single shot! Talk about a thousand words!
    Your styling is enviable..

  • elliewinds

    elliewinds

    incredible – every detail necessary to create the whole. it is the mirroring of body language in the men that stands out to me as a detail so important and so impressive that you ‘created’ it.

  • jemimalovesbigted

    jemimalovesbigted

    absolutely FABULOUS! what an amazing space and what a gorgeous capture. everything fits so perfectly.

  • Globalphotos

    Globalphotos

    Wow.amazing concept and execution :)

  • Ange

    Ange

    stunning work…

  • aglaia b

    aglaia b

    me shakin’ in my moccasin boots.
    sheer brilliance! ;-)

  • linda858100

    linda858100

    amazeing work your doing

  • Francesco Grillo

    Francesco Grillo

    great work my friend!

  • Adrian Richardson

    Adrian Richardson

    A fantastic series of shots. faultless.

  • mysteryfaith

    mysteryfaith

    i love the fashion sense behind this

  • utzuki

    utzuki

    You didn’t happen to work on set design for Revolutionary Road? This image reminds of a scene in that movie. Great textures and colors.

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