Droga (Road) 1916

Jan Bulhak made this photograph, called "Droga," meaning "Road," with gelatin silver. The sepia tones give the image a timeless quality, don’t they? It’s as if we're looking at a memory, faded but still vivid. I like how Bulhak captured the textures of the landscape; the way the sand of the road looks soft under the tires of the wagon, the rough scrub of the dunes. That wagon disappearing into the distance, leaving its trace in the sand – it’s a poignant reminder of our own journeys, the marks we leave behind, and the paths we follow, often into the unknown. There's a beautiful simplicity here, like some of those early landscapes by Gustave Le Gray, who was also working with photography as a painterly medium. Ultimately, it’s about seeing the world in a new way, embracing the ambiguity, and finding beauty in the everyday.