I had first met with Joanna when we were both twenty years old and she had posed for me for my first cover for a Polish magazine “Przekrój”.
Joanna’s free, dynamic femininity, which coexisted with a lively intelligence, inspired me to arrange many photographic sessions with her following that meeting.
Some years later we met by chance at a small party, during which I suggested that I take pictures of her.
One could say that it didn’t make any sense, because the lighting in that apartment was extremely ugly. Bare bulbs lit the place and space was just as plain as you can imagine.
Yet I took my camera out and looked at Joanna, who was already preparing herself for the session. She was so absorbed in those preparations that I probably did not exist for her anymore; especially as a camera obscured my face. Then she looked at me from where she was sitting, under harsh light and I saw her passionate face in a shadow.