Photographer
Wojtek Barczyński
Poland
Born in 1975, photojournalist and documentary photographer. Graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic, he has been a professional photographer since 2000. He worked successively in: the Silesian weekly „WIECZÓR”, “Życie Warszawy”, „Dziennik” and „Polska the Times”. Currently, he cooperates with the Polish Agency of Photographers FORUM. He also published in Polityka, Wprost, Newsweek, Culture.pl and Puls Biznesu. Winner of the Newsreportaż 2007 and Silesian Press Photo 2020 (in the Events category), finalist of the Grand Press Foto 2005.
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Photographer
Maciej Jeziorek
Warsaw, Poland
A documentarian and photographer born in 1973 in Warsaw. Three-time recipient of a grant from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2012, 2018, and 2022). Member of Press Club Polska. Co-founder and member of the Napo Images agency, which specializes in documentary photography. Author of several books. He has carried out documentary projects and commissions in Poland, India, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Germany, Belgium, and Ukraine. He worked as a photojournalist for the editorial staff of *Tygodnik Solidarność*, *Życie Warszawy*, *Życie*, and *Polska the Times*. From 2015 to 2019, he was head of the photo department at FORUM Polska Agencja Fotografów. Since 2020, he has been working at the Polish branch of Fujifilm.
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Visual artist
Beata Markowska
Poiland
Born in 1978, she is a graduate of the art department at the Higher Pedagogical School in Częstochowa and WSFoto in Warsaw. She is primarily involved in photography as a teacher and instructor of classes for youth and adults. In addition, she works in the fields of graphic design and jewelry design. She is the wife of Adam Markowski, the founder, creator, and coordinator of the Fujifilm Moment Street Photo Awards, who passed away in 2025. Together, they ran the ZetPeTe Studio in recent years—a creative meeting place for children and young people.
Photographer
Anna Kłosek
Warsaw, Poland
Documentary and street photographer. She is a laureate of Grand Press Photo, Slovak Press Photo, and the Krzysztof Miller Award. She has received a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Her work has been presented in more than 60 solo and group exhibitions. She teaches street photography and serves as a juror in photography competitions.
Her work focuses on people and their presence within the surrounding space. She is particularly interested in Eastern Europe and post-Soviet countries, where she most often directs her visual explorations. In recent years, she has focused on documentary photography and projects portraying contemporary Ukraine.
She is a member of the international organization Women Photograph and the Polish photography collective Un-Posed. She is currently studying at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava.
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Photographer
Adam Pańczuk
Poland
Documentary photographer, visual artist, educator. He studied economics and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. In 2024, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Institute Creative Photography in Opava. In his work, he combines classical documentary with elements of staging, focusing on the relationship between people and place, memory, and nature. He stories often through portraiture. He gained international recognition for his series “Karczeby,” dedicated to the inhabitants of the Polish countryside, which won awards including one at the Pictures of the Year International competition. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Geographic Award, the Magnum Expression Photography Award, the Newsweek Photo Award, and the Grand Press Photo Award.