Radomił "Poziom" Gomółka is a Polish photographer and skateboarder from Zakopane, a mountain town in the south of the country. For the past three years he has lived in Kraków. There, after years of searching, he found his path as a photographer, shaped by the city's architecture and its skateboarding community.
Skateboarders read a city differently from everyone else, and Radomił photographs it that way. He works mainly with light and shadow, and he treats them as the real structure of a frame. In one image, a skater in a red flannel pushes along a pale concrete wall, caught inside a sharp wedge of sunlight while his shadow stretches out ahead of him. In another, a rider pops an ollie under an overpass, his body almost lost in darkness while the shadow of his board lands cleanly in a patch of light on the pavement below. Inside a concrete pipe, two skaters carve opposite walls, and the curve of the tunnel turns the scene into a spiral.
What connects these images is a focus on story. Radomił sets out to build a narrative from situations that seem ordinary: a push down a sidewalk, a trick under a bridge, an afternoon in a drainage pipe. He waits for the moment when light, architecture, and movement line up, and a familiar place becomes something new.
We asked Radomił Gomółka questions that could only be answered with images…
