What are you scared of? What is your Bebok?

When I was a child, I was frightened by the monsters hiding under my bed. Later, my mum used to scare me with another one hiding in the darkness of our basement. In my teenage years I felt I didn't belong. But the list of my fears was very long. There is always Bebok waiting for us or hiding within us. Among a variety of fears, there is often the one caused by abandonment of the familiar, the safe. We are afraid of stepping outside the box, of going off the beaten path.

That is why, for the Września Collection project, I decided to abandon my previous style, give up what I felt confident in and overcome my fear of the unknown.

The project tells a contemporary story about a group of friends. The young people from Wrzesnia played themselves in Bebok, therefore some of the photographs are typically documentary, although the audience can only guess which ones. Everything in this world seems fictionalised and real at the same time. Almost all the characters play the role of teenages spending a carefree holiday together. Except for one. The title role. Bebok. Bebok is made of fear. The fear that is not fabricated, is truly real and can affect all of us.

What do we know about Bebok? Not much. It appears as a secretive observer of the pleasant events in the lives of the young people. It stands in the street and looks through the window of a flat where a party is taking place, it peeps at a kissing couple or secretly observes a group of friends spending time together in a summer house. For all intents and purposes, we do not know whether Bebok actually - physically - appears in the situations depicted. Perhaps even these events do not take place at all and only happen in its imagination?

The main character of this project is the anxiety and depression faced by a significant part of society, increasingly including young people, an illness which deprives one of the sense and joy of life.