The title of the series refers to the Zone System developed by Ansel Adams, which for many years has remained a fundamental point of reference for Kańczukowski - not as a set of technical instructions, but as a disciplined way of thinking about photography. Although familiar with advanced analog processes and long established as a power user of digital tools, the artist postponed a direct confrontation with this method for years. The search for the “right moment” gradually revealed itself as a hesitation to face the work of the figure who had most decisively shaped his understanding of photographic craft, responsibility, and visual ethics.

The decision to realise the series emerged in a space already deeply known and repeatedly photographed. The High Tauern mountains - documented by the artist for over a decade - became the field for a sustained and methodical practice carried out using full-frame digital cameras and a handheld light meter. The conscious application of the Zone System within a digital environment, arguably more demanding than its analog counterpart, required a heightened level of tonal awareness and exposure discipline. In this context, the project does not reinterpret tradition, but records a moment of readiness: a deliberate entry into dialogue with a method that allows neither shortcuts nor formal compromise.

All works in the series exist exclusively in the classical 8×10 inch format and are offered only as finished objects. Each photograph is printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta paper and presented in a black oak frame with museum-grade glass. The series is issued in a strictly limited edition of 20 prints plus 1 artist’s proof. Format, material, presentation, and edition are treated as fixed parameters of the project, reinforcing photography as a resolved, physical object rather than an image subject to variable reproduction or scaling.