THANATOSIS – an organism defensive reaction used in case of predator’s attack, in which potential victim freezes still and feign death, then a predator usually discontinues the attack. The re-action of the stimulus further deepens this condition.










Artur Kucharczak was born in 1989 in western Poland. He lives and works in Poznan. A graduate of the Technical School of Forestry in Rogoziniec. He graduated from the Wielkopolska School of Photography and Photography with the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the University of Arts in Poznan. Author of three individual exhibitions and participant of several collective. Four times winner of the first prize in the Greater Poland Press Photo competition and laureate DEBUTS 2016. He draws inspiration mainly from close relationships with the surrounding nature and experiences from the past. He documents everyday life and events related to the region he comes from. In the last projects, he focuses on showing the human impact on the environment and his relationship with this surrounding world.
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THANATOSIS – an organism defensive reaction used in case of predator’s attack, in which potential victim freezes still and feign death, then a predator usually discontinues the attack. The re-action of the stimulus further deepens this condition.
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