📅 26 February, 6:00 PM
📍 Old ZPAF Gallery, Warsaw
Every month at the Old ZPAF Gallery in Warsaw we will have the opportunity to meet and admire the photographs of exceptional women — Polish photographers.
They are fascinating in their diversity; they work in documentary, creative, and experimental photography. Some carry out long-term projects, others work in the daily press, and still others use historical photographic techniques. They differ in many ways: age, experience, interests, but they all share a passion for photography.
See you on 26 February at 6:00 PM at the Old ZPAF Gallery for a meeting with Aleksandra Szmigiel and Katarzyna Idźkowska.
Hosted by Pawłowscy Photographers.
Aleksandra Szmigiel — an independent photographer working with Reuters. She lives in Warsaw. She has worked at the biggest sporting events, such as the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022, Paris 2024), World Athletics Championships, European Athletics Championships, World Ski Championships and others. She is a Sony ambassador and a multiple award-winning photographer in international and national photography competitions, including POY, Grand Press Photo, World Sports Photography Awards. Her photographs have been published in titles such as The Washington Post, TIME, The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Liberation, Vogue. She is the author of personal projects about athletes and of solo and group exhibitions.
Katarzyna Idźkowska — a photographer specializing in artistic and commercial photography. She left corporate work to pursue her photographic passion. From 2015 she worked in New York, collaborating with leading music labels and magazines. She has worked with, among others, Agora, Warner Music, Smoke, Hing Note, EB Magazine and Insight Media Group. She focuses on jazz, portrait and documentary photography. She photographed for the Princess Grace Foundation in NYC. Prizewinner of awards including the International Photography Awards 2022 and 2023 and the Grand Prix Jazz World Photo 2020. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including at the Residence of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Washington and Agora Gallery in NY. Since 2021 she has been teaching at the Warsaw School of Photography and Graphic Design and the Author's School of Photography and Graphic Design in Warsaw, leading classes in artistic portrait. Since 2020 she has organized portrait workshops in Berlin.
