Portrait nominee

"About Yourself. Hybrids” is a self-portrait series that combines two themes into each single image: past and present, fears and expectations, childhood with adulthood, the me with others and the me with herself, me with my love… etc. Series made in wet plate collodion, exactly in ambrotype.
It is also a combination of old technology with new media, classic photography with collage, large format photography with a mobile phone, a self portrait with mobile-selfie.

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)