People 1st place winner

I'm a photographer. I'm an artist. I am the daughter of a chimney sweep. Since childhood my world was tangential to the world of chimney sweeps. This world was full of rules, rights, honor and class. World, whose integral part and attribute was uniform, high-hat and brush. In this world everyone uses specific language and there's a tradition passed down from father to son. My father had only daughters, so a very long time I thought I'd go in his footsteps. I've always been proud of the fact that I am the daughter of a chimney sweep.
When I started taking photos, I knew that would be the day when I will come with camera to this world. I was waiting only for the right moment. This moment, when I'm sure what I want and I will be aware of how to achieve it. When I discovered the technique of wet collodion, I knew it was a good time. That would be the perfect combination - portraits of chimney sweeps and the noble technique. For the last half year I photographed chimney sweeps working in Krakow, in technique wet plate collodion (exactly in ambrotype).

Born in Cracow, in 1979, Poland

education:
2015-2018
Pedagogical University of Cracow, Faculty of Art,
The third-cycle degree studies (Ph.D.)

2005-2007
The Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan
Multimedia Communication Department
Complementary Master of Art degree Studies – Photography
Diplomas in: Advertising Photography Study and Intermedia Photography Study
With honorable mention finish

2002-2005
The Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan
Multimedia Communication Department
Extramural Department of Photography
Diploma in Classical Themes of Photography Study

work:
The lecture / University of the National Education Commission in Krakow

exibitions:
Participant more than 50 collective and individual exhibitions.

awards:
- Scholarship of the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage - on project Black Portraits.
- Scholarship of the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage - on project Hutomanipulations.
- First place in the XIX INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF DIGITAL PHOTOCREATION
CYBERFOTO 2016
- First place in the XXVII INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF DIGITAL PHOTOCREATION
CYBERFOTO 2024
- Second place in the International Competition Vintage Grand Prix in 2015 (as part VINTAGE PHOTO FESTIVAL 2015)