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Marta Arendarczyk

Marta Arendarczyk

Trans:ition to the soul

Transition (…) is a photographic exploration of transgender identity and vulnerability. This series captures the moment between breaking and becoming — when the body still remembers the weight of what was assigned, yet begins to soften, and align with the soul.

Awards

World Photo Annual

2025

Honorable Mention

People

Non Professional

Trans:ition to the soul

Transition (…) is a photographic exploration of transgender identity and vulnerability. This series captures the moment between breaking and becoming — when the body still remembers the weight of what was assigned, yet begins to soften, and align with the soul.

About Artist

Marta Arendarczyk

I don’t do sessions — I meet people. Their light, their tenderness, their chaos. Sometimes it’s a conversation. Sometimes silence. Sometimes just an accident of light. I don’t pose. I don’t fix. I don’t pretend. I simply stay — where emotion becomes an image, and the image becomes proof that we truly lived. Because we did truly lived. Marta - photographer, poet and painter. I don’t take photos — I meet people. With their light, tenderness, and chaos. My work moves between silence and emotion, often blurring the line between what’s seen and what’s felt. Deeply sensitive to small gestures, to breath, to life itself — I capture the quiet truth that appears when we stop pretending. My images are less about perfection and more about presence. About being there, fully, when something real unfolds.

Marta Arendarczyk

Photographic Areas of Focus

People, Portrait, Street

Location

Poland

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