When you are too weak to cry, there comes silence.

Krzysztof Miller is a photoreporter with a special gift - ability to reach the deep end of basic and complicated questions through acute and sensitive perception.

The photographs from Zair are the pictures of the inner of human beings. They are pictures from Nowhere and from Every Place, where a man has been and will be. They present war not from the side of violent visions of military cruelty or people dying in the fire of battlefield. Using his skill, Miller makes tragic notes from the incaptivated places close to the front line, dying out from lingering torment of human life. The very last moments of this life are registered in faces that slowly, but inevitably, are leaving us; faces that have been excluded from this life; weary and starved faces.

These photographs, when in front of our eyes, set a picture of growing doubt and bitterness of questions; questions of difficult, or rather no answers.

The registered situations, often in silent stagnation and inertness, and seemingly casual, but transitory movements - they seem to present the author's perceptions evading the real time. This tensed silence makes the pictures attack. Even the static compositions of some expositions that show abstract, inhumane figures, which does not bring peace, but awe.

These photographs do not show the winners nor losers. They present the present and the absent in the frames, the lonely and the losers in struggle for future.

Does this mean that the future, already impossible to be saved, cannot be freed from violence and extermination?

One more time the beauty of life slids away, one more time someone, winner-or-loser, pays the undefined debt...

[ Marzenna Donajska - May,1997]