Conceptual nominee

It started with old family albums, found on the bottom of my mom’s drawer. My relative’s faces, so distant, stared at me, people I have never met. The most mysterious for me, was a small album full of photographs traces – in what an emphatic way it was talking about the fragility of being, about passing away, time and memory. After that, came the orphaned, unwanted photographs from street markets and stalls. Stranger’s faces, which became close to me, landed on my wardrobe’s shelves and occupied my thoughts. Their beauty and melancholy recalled a herbarium created during school years. By analogy, I started to connect photographs with plants through scanning the flowers and leaves. The gesture of scanning reminded the pages of the old newspapers and books, between which I once enclosed plants in school time, drying them and allowing them to die. A choice of plants to my project was not accidental. All of them come from my family garden, which was always present in my life and in my mother’s life. The time of this place’s greatness is long gone.

I am a student of Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, gradaute of Wroclaw's Photography School AFA and a memeber or Association of Polish Art Photographers. I run photography workshops in historical techniques such as cyanotype or wet collodion. In my activities, I combine photography with other areas of artistic expression, trying to establish a pictorial intergenerational contact.

Major exhibitions:
2019 Katowice Gallery "Za Szybą", Reminiscences
2019 Kielce Art Exhibition Office, Reminiscences
2020 Bydgoszcz Vintage Photo Festival, Reminiscences. Blue chlorophyll.
2020 Rybnik Festival of Photography, Herbarium
2021Toruń Center for Contemporary Art "Znaki Czasu", Nitki niepamiętania
Awards :
The Main Director's Award in the Exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Art in Toruń competition, 2020
1st place in the Odklejona Photography Competition, 2020
Vintage Grand Prix Honorable Mention in 6th edition of Vintage Photo Festival in Bydgoszcz, 2020
Honorable Mention in Fine Art Category in 4th edition of MonoVisions Photography Awards for winning entry Brooch, 2020
Honorable Mention in Fine Arte: conceptual category in Neutral Density Photpgraphy Awards, Herbarium 2020
NOMINEE in the 7th edition of Fine Art Photography Awards, category Conceptual, Herbarium, 2021