Authors

Michał Diament

Michał Diament was born in east-central town of Skarżysko-Kamienna in 1935 and he died in the south-western city of Wrócław in 1977. A photographer and creator of unique glass art, he graduated from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, where he… Continue reading Michał Diament

Renata Dąbrowska

Renata Dąbrowska was born in Gdańsk in 1983. A graduate of the Leon Schiller Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, she is a photographer connected with the Gdańsk branch of a national daily, “Gazeta Wyborcza”. The awards she has received include the Grand Press Photo 2018 and the Gdańsk Press Photo 2019.

Joanna Rajkowska

Joanna Rajkowska, visual artist, was born in 1968 in the northern city of Bydgoszcz. She graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and in history of art from that city’s Jagiellonian University. Her most well-known work is a public project, “Greetings from Aleje Jerozolimskie”.

Jan Brykczyński

Jan Brykczyńsk was born in Warsaw in 1979. He is a documentary photographer and a co-founder of the Sputnik Photos international collective of East-Central European photographers.

Wacław Biliński

Wacław Biliński, writer, journalist, screenwriter and photographer, was born in 1921 in Lwów, now Lviv in Ukraine, and died in Łódź in 1999. Having settled there in 1949, he was an active participant in the cultural life of the city and was involved professionally with Profil, a partially autonomous film studio, and a regional weekly,… Continue reading Wacław Biliński

Adam Bujak

Adam Bujak (b. 1942) is a Krakow photographer and a member of the Związek Polskich Artystów Fotografików (Union of Polish Art Photographers). He specialises in Polish travel and religious themes and documented Karol Wojtyła in his service as cardinal and then Pope John Paul II. Bujak is the author of more than one hundred albums… Continue reading Adam Bujak

Jan Bułhak

Jan Bułhak was born in the village of Ostaszyn/Astašyn in 1876 and he died in the town of Giżycko in north-east Poland in 1950. A pioneer of Polish fine arts photography, he was also a theorist and critic of the form. Bułhak was a driving force in the clubs and union movement; he co-founded Fotoklub… Continue reading Jan Bułhak

Andrew Brustman

Andrzej Brustman (?-2007) was a photographer based the central Polish city of Łódź. He specialised in film and theatre photography, collaborating with the city’s Teatr Nowy for many years. In the nineteen fifties, he successfully took part in a number of amateur artistic photography exhibitions, winning the Ministry of Culture and the Arts’ first prize… Continue reading Andrew Brustman

Anna Chojnacka

Anna Chojnacka was born in 1914 in Silesia, in the city of Sosnowiec and she died in the nearby city of Katowice in 2007. She joined the ZPAF in 1958 and was an active member of the organisation. The author of numerous exhibitions and photographic series, including “Wśród plastyków śląskich” (Among Silesia’s Visual Artists; 1962),… Continue reading Anna Chojnacka

Adam Bogusz

Adam Bogusz (1918-2001) was a Silesian photographer. He joined the Związek Polskich Artystów Fotografików (Union of Polish Art Photographers; ZPAF) in 1950 and took part in many of the union’s exhibitions. He was also a committed activist in its Silesian branch.

Edward Hartwig

Edward Hartwig was born in Moscow in 1909 and he died in Warsaw in 2003. The most important creator of artistic photography in the second half of the twentieth century, he was a co-founder of the Związek Polskich Artystów Fotografików (Union of Polish Art Photographers) and one of its activists. He was the author of… Continue reading Edward Hartwig

Zygmunt Gloger

Zygmunt Gloger was born in the north-eastern village of Tybory-Kamianka in 1845 and he died in Warsaw in 1910. An archaeologist, historian, ethnographer and folklorist, with a profound and extensive knowledge of his country, his books on the culture of Old Poland are considered required reading to this day. He was a co-founder of the… Continue reading Zygmunt Gloger

Cezary Bodzianowski

Cezary Bodzianowski (b. 1968) is an artist, performer and creator of Neo-Dadaist activities and actions performed for the camera, which are most often recorded by his wife, Monika Chojnicka. Their witnesses and unconscious participants appear by chance.

Piotr Uklański

born in Warsaw in 1968, is one of the most controversial Polish artists of the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While he is working on his books and exhibitions, he uses staged, vernacular and appropriated photography, turning more rarely to documentary forms. He live in New York and Warsaw.

Paweł Jaszczuk

Paweł Jaszczuk was born in Warsaw in 1978. A graduate in graphic art from the School of Visual Arts in Sydney, Australia, he lived and worked in Japan for almost ten years, devoting two books, “Salaryman” and “Kinky City”, to that city.

Łukasz Rusznica

Łukasz Rusznica was born in 1980. A photographer and HEI teacher with a background in cultural studies, he is part of the arts scene in the south-western city of Wrocław is involved with the Creative Arts Centre, where he runs the Miejsce przy Miejscu (A Place by the Place) gallery.

Bownik

Paweł Bownik, photographer, was born in 1977 in Janów Podlaski, in eastern Poland and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He works in the sphere of contemporary art, creating projects which he develops over the course of several years. The visual codes he makes reference to are not only strictly photographic, but… Continue reading Bownik

Mikołaj Długosz

Mikołaj Długosz was born in Warsaw in 1975 and graduated from the Leon Schiller Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. He usually works with found and vernacular photographs, using them to compose original projects for publications and exhibitions.

Kuba Dąbrowski

born in the north-eastern city of Białystok in 1980. A photojournalist, documentarian, fashion photographer, blogger and journalist, the first decade of the twenty-first century saw him involved with “Przekrój” weekly and the second, with “Women’s Wear Daily”.

Wiktoria Wojciechowska

Wiktoria Wojciechowska was born in the city of Lublin in south-eastern Poland in 1991. A graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, she specialises in subjective documentation and series of portraits. The works for her series are taken not only in her birthplace, but also in other countries, such as Ukraine, for “Sparks” and… Continue reading Wiktoria Wojciechowska

Aneta Grzeszykowska

Aneta Grzeszykowska was born in Warsaw in 1974 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts there. She began collaborating with her partner, Jan Smaga, in 1999. As of 2005, she primarily exhibits her own, individual projects. She works with photography and film and creates sculptural forms, engaging with questions of identity, image and depicting… Continue reading Aneta Grzeszykowska