Susann Carmen Jagodzińska

Susann Carmen Jagodzińska is a polish-german photographer, writer and filmmaker based in Paris.
After studying ethnology, philosophy and film in Germany, Japan and France she wrote her masterwork titled:
"Organic Cinema, recognizing the artificial, confronting the past".
A subject that she continues to recherche and explore artistically.
Working with film, photography and text, she sees her art as a form of self integration and self discovery.
Like in her short film Brzeg (Shore), telling the story of two children lost in a suspended world,
between memory and reality, life and death.
Echo of Photons, a photo text book published in 2022 that documents the process in which she got aware of her own internal fragmentation
and the importance of nature leading the process towards healing,
featuring a series which got a special mention from Urbanautica Awards 2024.
In 2024, she united photography, film and poetry in a collaboration with Euchronia, a Japanese lace creator,
leading to the "Réminiscence" photographic series as well as
the poetry film "Prayer to the ocean" shown in various international festivals.
Since 2025, she is working on a handmade artist book, "Children of the golden Sun".
For this project she got selected for the masterclass held by Origini Edizioni in Livorno, Italy.
She received honorable mention at the FotoSlovo International Photography Awards 2025,
and had international exhibitions.
Currently she is working on a 16mm short film "My bright blue Heart" that will accompany the series "Children of the golden Sun".
She is also preparing, in collaboration with Yoshida Akihito, a photographic reflexion on the Mizuko Kuyou ritual in Japan.
Photography
Recognitions
"Children of the golden Sun". Analog Sparks International Photography Awards 2025. Fine Art Category. Honorable Mention
"Children of the golden Sun". FotoSlovo International Photography Awards 2025 . Honorable Mention
"Echo of Photons”. Urbanautica International Photography Awards 2024, Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes. Special Mention
Masterclass
Origini Edizioni Masterclass. "Making of an handmade artist book". Livorno, Italy. 2025
Books
"Children of the golden Sun" 2025 . Dummy made during the Origini Masterclass 2025. Book in preparation.
"Echo of Photons" 2022 edited by Céedition
Publications
"Neither here, nor There". Ephemere. Tokyo, Japan, 2025
"ZIVNE". Zone, Italy, 2025
Aenionan Magazine. Experimental Photography. Issue. No. 13. Online
Collective Exhibitions
Photographic essay “I am”. Ephemere Foto Fest. Conceal Gallery Shibuya. Tokyo, Japan 2025
“Children of the golden Sun”. FotoSlovo Awards 2025. Apothices Papadaki Gallery. Limassol, Cyprus 2025
"Children of the golden Sun". Meditative Lens. Art Doc Magazine. 2025 Online
"Peace". A Summer of Hope. Lenscratch. 2025 Online
"Echo of Photons". The Concept Vol. 1. Gallery: IRIS ARLES, Arles, France 2024
"Echo of Photons" Identity. Art Doc Magazine. 2022. Online
"Suspendu Dans l’Espace". Formatova. Les Grands Voisins. Paris, France 2019
Interview
Film Interview with Susann Carmen Jagodzinska . Echo of Photons. Iris Arles. Exhibition
Film
Recognition
"Neige Rouge" scenarion. Finalist. G.R.E.C. 2017
Projections
"Prayer to the Ocean" . Official Selection. Proxy Act Festival. Italy. 2025
"Prayer to the Ocean", International Film Poetry Festival in Rogil, Portugal, Curated by the Institute for Experimental Arts, Athen. 2025
"Prayer to the Ocean", International Film Poetry Festival in Sagres, Portugal, Curated by the Institute for Experimental Arts, Athen. 2025
"Prayer to the Ocean" 12th International Video Poetry Festival in Athen, Greece. 2025
"Prayer to the Ocean" Poesia Sin Fin. Cinéma le Balzac, Paris, France. 2025
Interview
Documentary Series. Portraits de Cineastes. Susann Carmen Jagodzinska .Short film, Digital, B&W and Color,14:12. Dénis Doucet for Filmowide
Residencies
G.R.E.C. Finalist. Scenario Masterclass for the project "Neige Rouge". Grenoble, 2017
Studies
Philosophy & Ethnology at University Bremen, Germany (B.A)
with an exchange at the 愛知大学 -Aichi Daigaku, Nagoya, Japan
Film, Esthetic & Creation at the Sorbonne Pantheon University Paris 1, France (M.A)
Research work
Bachelor work
"The meaning of the Buddhistic Ritual Mizuko-kuyo (水子供養 ), for the Japanese woman"
Master work
“Organic Cinema: Recognizing the Artificiel, Confronting the past”
This work aims to show how Organic Cinema, a cinema that would like to get closer to nature, to make space for real time, through, for example, long takes, stands out in its relationship between the author, the work and the observer. It intends to show that the cinema and its codes can have effects which encourage the reproduction of artificial constructions. Which can be manipulated and manipulative as in the case of propaganda. It is particularly focused on Eastern Europe. It studyies the filmic processes used and invented under communism, compares the Organic Cinema to them and looks at the responses of two films in particular: Sátántangó by Béla Tarr and Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky. It tries to see how these films encourage presence and recognition of the artificial (denial, belief systems, etc.). The recognition of these artificial constructions and the spatio-temporal re-expérience offered by their cinema leave room for the observer to be able to confront his past, find a voice to talk about his wounds, and begin, perhaps, a journey towards healing.
Works
Photography
Children of the golden Sun, 2024-ongoing
Time is inexorable, 2021-ongoing
Echo of Photons, 2017-2022
Photography Essay
I am, 2025
Filmography
Prayer to the Ocean, 2024
Super 8, color, b&w, 04:04
Morning Dew, 2022
Super 8, Sepia, color, 04:43
Initiale, 2021
Super 8, b&w, 04:59
Between Earth and Sky 2020,
16mm b&w film, 03:36
Brzeg (Shore), 2019
Digital, b&w and color, 14:12 min
Bibliography
Children of the golden Sun, 2023- 2025
fiction - poetry
Echo of Photons, 2022
fiction- poetry
Moj Raj (My Paradise) , 2019 - ongoing
fiction-poetry
Neige Rouge (Red Snow), 2017
scenario