Education:

Graduate of Institute for Creative Photography in Czech Opava.

Specialization:

Documentary photography.

Exhibitions, workshops, author's meetings:

Solo exhibitions:

2008 – Rzeczy (things) – ZPAF i S-ka Gallery, Kraków.

2008 – Dom (home) – Thessaloniki Photo Biennial.

2007 – Dom (home) – (project carried out with Weronika Łodzińska) Budapest, Hungary; Prague House of Photography, Prague, Czech Republic.

2006 – 1,62m2 domu (1.62m2 home) – (project carried out with Weronika Łodzińska) Opera Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic; ŻAK Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Spitz Gallery, London, Great Britain.

2006 – Dom (home) – (project carried out with Weronika Łodzińska) Yours Gallery, Warszawa.

2006 – HDL – Lillebonne Gallery, Nancy, France. 2005 – Dom (home) – Photomonth in Bratislava, Slovakia. 2005 – 1,62m2 domu (1.62m2 home) – Transphotographiques Festival, Lille, France.

2005 – Morze Czarne (The Black Sea) – Dom Umeni, Opava, Czech Republic; Atiso Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.

Group exhibitions:

Nowi Dokumentaliści (New Documentalists) – Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej (Center of Contemporary Art), Ujazdowski Castle; Photomonth in Bratislava, Slovakia. Teraz Polska (Poland Now) – Yours Gallery, Warszawa; Photomonth in Kraków.

Publications, articles, books, group works:

Group publications: Fotografia 97 (Photography 1997) Małopolska. Fotografie. To niczego nie wyjaśnia. (Little Poland. Photographs. It does not explain anything.) Nowi Dokumentaliści (New Documentalists) Six Portfolio of Polish Photographers

Awards:

2008 – ECB Award, Germany.

2007 – Photopoland. 2005 – FRAME005 Art, Photo Award, Brno, Czech Republic.

2005 – EPSON Art Photo Award (honorable mention in the category Best Works).

2005 – 3rd place in FotoArtFestival contest.

2004 – 3rd place in Newsweek Poland contest (group project with Weronika Łodzińska).

2003 – 1st place in Newsweek Poland contest in the category Everyday Life for the picture story Morze Czarne – Ukraina (Black Sea – Ukraine).

2003 – grant of the European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam, for carrying out the project Morze Czarne (Black Sea).

2003 – 2nd place in Photographic Biennial Kochać Człowieka (To Love a Man).

2001 – 2nd place in Polish Press Photo Contest (in the category Everyday Life).

2001 – Grand Prix in the City Portrait of Kraków Contest.

2000 – Award of the vice provincial governor (voivode) in the City Portrait of Kraków Contest.

1999 – Grand Prix in the City Portrait of Kraków Contest.

1999 – 3rd place in Polish Press Photo Contest (in the category Everyday Life).

Activities outside Academy of Photography:

Realization of original documentary cycles. Work with projects carried out by the Imago Mundi Foundation. A member of Editorial Advisory Board and an Artistic Deputy Director of Miesiąc Fotografii (Photomonth) in Kraków. A curator of the exhibitions: Stefania Gurdowa - Klisze przechowuje się (Stefania Gurowa – negatives are to be stored) and Zatrzymani (deteinees).

A few words from me (about myself/my hobbies):

He is a co-founder of the artistic group DRUT (Dębicka Rzesza Uprawiaczy Tfurczości – crowd of people from Dębica practicing artistic work) and of a band, playing improvised music, called Na Przykład (For Example), both active in years 1985 – 1990. He has been a documentary photographer since the beginning of the nineties publishing his works in majority of Polish weeklies. To his most famous photographic series one may include: Morze Czarne (Black Sea), Klinika (Hospital), Nieskończoność poznania (Infinity of Perception), and Dom (Home) (together with Weronika Łodzińska). He is a winner of many photographic awards. He is a co-founder of the Imago Mundi Foundation, acting for education and development of photography. He is an artistic deputy director of Miesiąc Fotografii (Photomonth) in Kraków, and a member of the Visavis.pl Photographers' Collective.

Classes given at Academy of Photography:

Documentary photography.

A short description of classes given at Academy of Photography:

Classes aim at the preparation for independent photographer's work and put emphasis on students' activity. During academic year students make one own photographic cycle, in the subject consulted beforehand with the lecturer, as well as one subject concerning an issue chosen in class made by the entire group. Work progress is consulted in each class. Practices follow examples and examples' analysis. The main principle of the studio is a creative way of reasoning and approach to the issue of contemporary document. Search for an own personal area of interpretation and a genuine conscious photographic expression avoiding exclusively formal means. Bringing various artistic stances, resulting from a personal unique life experience, to students' attention. Introduction of contemporary currents of documentary photography. Photographers' preparation for independent work and for the realization of original documental cycles.