Conceptual nominee

We fear things we don't know. We fear the darkness. What can you feel when you see lighs in the dark, that shouldn't be there?

Krzysztof (Eng. Christopher) Ślachciak, born in 1983, Poznań, Poland. Artist Photographer, member of The Association of Polish Art Photographers. He graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań with masters degree in Korean Studies and on Poznań University of Economics he did postgraduate studies in field of Business to Business Marketing with thesis on commercial photography. He is interested in photography since highschool and since 2008 he has run his own commercial photography studio in his hometown. Since 2011 until 2016, at the invitation of profesor Włodzimierz Włoszkiewicz, he has conducted practical lessons of photography and lectures of composition for the Architecture Department's students at the Poznań University of Technology. Since 2013 he has run photography section of the Artistic Science Club. Currently, with Tomasz Jędrzejewski, he runs private art school "Creative Squad" with cooperation of Culture Center ESTEDE in Gniezno. Until now he has shown his works during more than twenty collective and indyvidual exhibitions as well as other artistic events. He has also curated five exhibitions. June 2016 he has won 2nd Prize in Open Theme in II Fine Art Photography Awards for his Mimesis series.