05.02.2011 - 05.02.2011

Meeting with a photographer, Witold Krassowski

Photo reportage: how and what for? will be the main motto of a meeting with a great Polish photographer, Witold Krassowski.

START: 5.00 pm
ADMISSION free

WITOLD KRASSOWSKI, born 1956, in Poland
EDUCATION
1975-81 - French Literature and Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw
1979-80 - Institut de Linguistique Generale, Université Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle
1981 - Final diploma in Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1981-86 - Photographer (staff) in Polish Catholic weeklies; stringer with AP
1988-93 - Freelance with The Independent Magazine, London
1988-2005 - with Network Photographers, London
1999 - World Press Photo jury member
2005- 2008 - vice-president of the Association of Polish Art Photographers
2006 - Master in the WPP Masterclass, Amsterdam
2007 - teacher at Pahshala, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Reportages in Poland, GB, Austria, Switzerland, Egypt, Afghanistan, Russia, Bulgaria, Kazachstan, Tanzania, Italy, Germany, Mongolia...

EXHIBITIONS
1988 - Freightdoors Gallery, Santa Clara, California, USA
1989 - Photographers Gallery, London (touring till Dec 92)
1991 - Kabul, Caracas
1992 - Perpignan, with other Network photographers
1997 - “British Pastimes” touring in Poland
1999 - "After-images of Poland" touring in Poland
2000 - Warsaw; participation in Magic Moments II (touring)
2001 - Munich, Köln
2002 - Bielsko-Biała
2006 - Lisbon, Portugal
2007 - Budapest

PUBLICATIONS
Several publications in various European and American magazines and dailies
The Independent Magazine - 18 picture stories published
75 Years of Leica, the Hope Project, the Inferno-Paradiso Project ,
Magic Moments II - contribution
“Visages de l’Est” - a book published by NATHAN IMAGE, Paris 1991

AWARDS
1992 - World Press Photo - 3rd prize in Daily Life Picture Stories
1994, 95 - Polish Press Photography Contest - 1st prize in Daily Life Stories
1996 - Polish Press Photography Contest - 2nd prize in Daily Life Stories
1997 - Polish Press Photography Contest - 1st and 2nd prize in Daily Life Stories
2000 - Polish Press Photography Contest - 1st prize in Arts and Culture Stories
2001 - The British Design & Art Direction "Yellow Pencil" Award (silver)
2003 - World Press Photo - 3rd prize in Science and Technology Picture Stories
2003 - Polish Press Photography Contest - 2nd prize in Daily Life Stories
2005 - Art & Worship Award, 1st prize, Teheran
2007 - ICRC Award

Organiser: The Tricity School of Photography (Trójmiejska Szkoła Fotografii)
Partners: Marshall of the Pomorskie Voivodeship, Baltic Sea Cultural Centre