Susann Carmen Jagodzińska

Susann Carmen Jagodzińska (1990)
is a Polish (in Germany born) photographer, filmmaker, and writer
whose artistic work is a form of meditation on memory, time, and human experience.
Through a metaphysical contemplation on existence,
she explores the invisible layers of consciousness and how they influence the nature of reality.
Memory is experienced as fluid and multidimensional.
She invites the viewer’s own intuition and internal rhythm to complete the artwork. The multidimensional dialog.
She emphasizes the importance of becoming aware of one's individual history in order to regain the power to consciously influence collective aspirations. But also the importance of becoming aware of collective histories to understand how human beings resonate within universal structures.
She studied philosophy, ethnology, film and creation in Germany, Japan, and France.
She works with Super 8, 16mm film and analog photography, sometimes painting on photographs.
She uses prose poetry, as another layer, to question the nature of human reality.
Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and publications, as well as at international
independent photography and film festivals.
Her film "Prayer by the Ocean" is being curated by the Institute for Experimental Arts in Athens.
“Echo of Photons” (2022), published by Céeditions, is her first photography and text monograph.
She is currently working on her next book “Children of the Golden Sun”.
“Children of the golden Sun” will be exhibited during the Mulhouse Photography Biennale in June 2026.
Photography
Children of the golden Sun, 2021-ongoing
Echo of Photons, 2017-2022
Photography Essay
I am, 2025
Filmography
Children of the golden Sun, 2026
Super 8 & 16mm film, 5:28
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

PHOTOGRAPHY
BOOKS
"Children of the golden Sun" 2025 . Dummy made during the Origini Masterclass 2025.
"Echo of Photons" 2022 edited by Céedition
PUPLICATIONS
Revue Novo. N°80. Mediapopeditions, 2026
"Neither here, nor There". Ephemere. Tokyo, Japan, 2025
"ZIVNE". Zone, Italy, 2025
Aenionan Magazine. Experimental Photography. Issue. No. 13. Online
Photographic essay “I am”. Ephemere Foto Fest. Conceal Gallery Shibuya. Tokyo, Japan 2025
"Children of the golden Sun". Meditative Lens. Art Doc Magazine. 2025 Online
"Peace". A Summer of Hope. Lenscratch. 2025 Online
"Echo of Photons" Identity. Art Doc Magazine. 2022. Online
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
The PEP x BPM exhibition "Sedimentations". Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, France 2026
The inner Lens. Art Doc Magazine. 2026. Online
Ephemere Foto Fest. Conceal Gallery Shibuya. Tokyo, Japan 2025
“Children of the golden Sun”. FotoSlovo Awards 2025. Apothices Papadaki Gallery. Limassol, Cyprus 2025
"Echo of Photons". The Concept Vol. 1. Gallery: IRIS ARLES, Arles, France 2024
"Suspendu Dans l’Espace". Formatova. Les Grands Voisins. Paris, France 2019
INTERVIEW
Film Interview with Susann Carmen Jagodzinska . Echo of Photons. Iris Arles. Exhibition
REVIEWS
Echo of Photons- Susann Carmen Jagodzinska. 5 rue du, Frédéric Martin, 2026
Comme un Lied de Schubert, par Susann Carmen Jagodzinska, photographe. Lintervalle, Fabien Ribery, 2026
RECOGNITIONS
"Children of the golden Sun". Fine Art Photography Awards 2026. Nominee.
"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
FILM
RECOGNITIONS
"Neige Rouge" scenarion. Finalist. G.R.E.C. 2017
PROJECTIONS
"Prayer to the Ocean", Representing the Institute for Experimental Arts Athen at the Film Festival "Au Fil de l’Art Festival" France, 2026
"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
RESIDENCES
G.R.E.C. Finalist. Scenario Masterclass for the project "Neige Rouge". Grenoble, 2017
EDUCATION
MASTERCLASS & MENTORING PROGRAMMS
Mentoring Program with "Les amis du National Museum of Woman in the Arts", in Washington D.C., USA. 2026
"Fortnight" Mentoring with Ilias Georgiadis. 2025/2026
Origini Edizioni Masterclass. "Making of an handmade artist book". Livorno, Italy. 2025
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.