Honorable Mention / 2023 / Press / Performing Arts

Dark melodies

Documentary set of photographs from the theatrical play "NICK CAVE. Ballads of lovers and murderers" directed by Natalia Mazurkiewicz and Michał Szafarski and staged at Theater of Unlucky Cases in Kraków, Poland. It was fantastic challenge to photograph this performance in such incredibly dark conditions. The scenery perfectly harmonizes with a disturbing poems and melodies of the songs by Nick Cave.

Theater photographer.
Fascinated by the theater, which I try to convey in my photographs. Photography is for me a medium that allows me to capture this experience that lasts only for a split second.
I collaborate with many theater artists. I have been specialized in documenting theatre life, from the first rehearsals on which the ideas for play are born, through advanced work on roles, choreography, including stage design, to the final effect of the completed performance. My favourite part of this job is preparing an advertising set of the best scenes from a play to promote it.

Awards 2022 - Finalist of International Photography Awards 2022, awarded the title "Official Selection" in non-professional "Event" category
2020 - Finalist of the 6th Edition of the Theater Photography Competition organized by The Zbigniew Raszewski Theater Institute (Warsaw, Poland) and featured in "Theater photo of the 2019/2020 season" category.

EXHIBITIONS:
2022 - "Theatre Photography" - Collective exhibition of works made during the second edition of the theatre photography workshop with Tobiasz Papuczys, THE WROCLAW THEATRE ACADEMY, Wroclaw, Poland
2022 - "Theatre Photography" - Collective exhibition of works made during the second edition of the theatre photography workshop with Tobiasz Papuczys, THE GROTOWSKI's INSTITUTE "BAKERY" gallery, Wroclaw, Poland