Artur Conka
Photographer & Film Maker
UnFrame
London, UK
Artur Conka documentary photography explores the nature of human beings and their surroundings. Developing images that show natural and thought provoking pictures. Artur has been commissioned by Open Society, Institute of Public Policy Research, Aire Centre and has published with The Independent, Foto8 Magazine, dRoma Magazine, Society Magazine and Travellers Times Magazine to name a few.
2016 - TEDx Talk , 2015 - Education for Remembrance of the Roma Genocide, 2015 - dRoma Magazine , 2015 - Autograph Gallary , 2014 - Derby Museum Exhibition
- Advertising
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Fashion
- Interview
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Video capture
- Video editing
Lunik IX
Artur Conka
You can’t miss Lunik IX, but most people avoid it at all costs. It is a dilapidated block of flats in the western part of Kosice in Slovakia that receives no gas, electricity or running water. It is surrounded by garbage bags that rarely get picked up by the council, and the windows that cover its façade have been stripped for scrap metal and wood to provide meagre income for its inhabitants who are estimated to number ten thousand, three times the number planned when Lunik IX was built in 1979. The many men, women and children that play and meet on the surrounding streets do not look dangerous, but they are all Roma and that is reason enough for many of the local white population to steer clear.
Lunik IX
Artur Conka
You can’t miss Lunik IX, but most people avoid it at all costs. It is a dilapidated block of flats in the western part of Kosice in Slovakia that receives no gas, electricity or running water. It is surrounded by garbage bags that rarely get picked up by the council, and the windows that cover its façade have been stripped for scrap metal and wood to provide meagre income for its inhabitants who are estimated to number ten thousand, three times the number planned when Lunik IX was built in 1979. The many men, women and children that play and meet on the surrounding streets do not look dangerous, but they are all Roma and that is reason enough for many of the local white population to steer clear.
