AMZN
Poland
2022
In December 2018, Tytus Szabelski got a job at one of ten Amazon fulfilment centres in Poland to observe the company from the inside. The resulting multifaceted multimedia AMZN project sheds light on the functioning of this e-commerce giant: from its material footprint through working conditions to Jeff Bezos’s visions of the future. Amazon is just an example of what our reality may soon look like. Or indeed what it already does look like: behind a smooth online store interface and almost windowless warehouse walls, there hide exploitation and inequality of wealth, knowledge and influence.
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About the artist
Born in 1991, Tytus Szabelski is a Polish photographer, visual artist and curator. He has studied journalism and social communication (BA) and photography (MA), and completed a PhD at the University of Arts in Poznań, Poland. Laureate of the Konrad Pustoła Memory Scholarship for socially engaged photographers, he also took part in the European photo-based platform Parallel (2019-20).