About

Maciej is a Polish photographer, traveller and gallerist living in London, UK. He holds a PhD in computer science, but abandoned science to focus on photography. He is one of the founders of Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff, a member of the Wideangle photo agency, the un-posed Polish street photography collective and the international street photography collective In-Public. He has worked on various photographic projects in the UK and abroad, organised and run numerous photography workshops and his interests are in documentary, travel and street photography. Maciej’s photos have been widely published and exhibited around the world, shown at photo festivals (including Visa Pour l’Image international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France) and he is a recipient of numerous awards. He was profiled among other leading street photographers in the “Street Photography Now” book published by the British publisher Thames & Hudson, who also published Maciej’s first monograph “Cardiff After Dark” in October 2012.

 

BOOKS (monographs)

 

BOOKS (with others)

  • “Magenta Flash Forward 2009″, Magenta Foundation.
  • “Street Photography Now”, 2010, Thames & Hudson. (on amazon.co.uk) – profiled among 45 other international street photographers in the book published in the UK, France and USA : LINK
  • “Hijacked III”, 2012, Kehrer Verlag. (on amazon.co.uk)

 

AWARDS

  • BZ WBK Press Photo 2011 – Poland – 2nd place in the “Society” category LINK
  • BZ WBK Press Photo 2011 – Poland – 3rd place in the “Nature” category LINK
  • Digital Camera Photographer of The Year 2010 – UK – 2nd place in the “Documentary” category and 3d place in the “Adrenaline” category LINK
  • Wielki Konkurs National Geographic 2010 – Poland – Honourable Mention in the “Reportage” category LINK
  • BZ WBK Press Photo 2010 – Poland – 3rd place in the “Civilisation” category LINK
  • VIVA! Photo Awards 2009 – Poland – The Grand Prix Award LINK
  • 170 Lat Fotografii – Poland – “People” Category Winner LINK
  • Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographer 2009 LINK
  • Digital Camera Photographer of The Year 2009 – UK – 3d place, Highly Commended and Commended in “This is Britain” Category LINK

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 3 March – 6 May 2012 – Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia and the UK – QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK. (LINK)
  • 18 February – 8 April 2012 – Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia and the UK – Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia.
  • 9 February – 4 March 2012 – “Street Games” – the “un-posed” collective exhibition – Leica Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. (read about the exhibition)
  • 22 January – 29 February 2012 – “STREET PHOTOGRAPHY NOW – Fotografia uliczna tu i teraz.” – Galeria Pauza, Krakow, Poland. (read about the exhibition)
  • 19 November 2011 – 15 January 2012 – “STREET PHOTOGRAPHY NOW – Fotografia uliczna tu i teraz.” – Muzeum Drukarstwa Warszawskiego, Warsaw, Poland. (read about the exhibition)
  • 2 October – 14 November 2011 – “From Distant Streets”, as part of the Louisville Photo Biennial, Galerie Hertz in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
  • From July 2011 – BZWBK 2011 Press Foto – a touring exhibition in 24 major cities of Poland.
  • 6 August – 5 November 2011 – Mass Photography: Blackpool through the camera – Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool.
  • 14 April – 22 July 22 2011 – Big Little City (showing “Cardiff After Dark” and “The Staff Club” projects) – The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff.
  • 11 December 2010 – 15 January 2011 – Street Photography Now – CONTRIBUTED, Studio for the Arts, Berlin, Germany
  • 18 December 2010 – 30 January 2011 – Street Photography Now – Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany
  • 5 – 28 November 2010 – Street Photography Trail – Paris, France
  • October 2010 – Street Photography Now – Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, UK
  • 6 April – 9 May 2010 – “Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2009″ – Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, USA
  • February 2010 – “Milosc w czasach kryzysu (Love During the Crisis Time)” – Galeria 2piR in Poznan, Poland (see the flyer and read about the exhibition)
  • October 2009 – “Viva! Photo Awards 2009″ – Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, Poland
  • October 2009 – “Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2009″ – Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
  • September 2009 – “Foto8 Awards & Summer Show 2009″ – Crane Kalman Gallery, Brighton, UK
  • August 2009 – “Foto8 Awards & Summer Show 2009″ – HOST Gallery, London, UK
  • July 2008 – “Foto8 Awards & Summer Show 2008″ – HOST Gallery, London, UK
  • May 2008 – “Protest” – Charnwood Museum, Loughborough, England
  • September 2007 – “Cardiff” – Nantes City Hall, Nantes, France
  • June 2007 – “Transsexuals of India” – Goteborg Museum, Sweden
  • April 2007 – “Africa” – AFRYKAMERA festival, Warsaw, Poland

 

FESTIVALS

  • November 2012 – “Cardiff After Dark” at Vilnius Photo Circle Photo Festival 2012 (LINK).
  • 19 October – 25 November 2012 – The 5th European Month of Photography, Berlin, Germany (part of the un-posed exhibition)
  • 14 September – 28 October 2012 – “Cardiff After Dark” displayed as a part of the “Facing Youth” exhibition at Encontros da Imagem 2012, Braga, Portugal – an international festival of photography and video (LINK).
  • March – April 2012 – “Cardiff After Dark” – Fotojatka Festival 2012 – Brno, Prague, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
  • 29 September 2011 – “Cardiff After Dark” screened at Visa Pour l’Image 2011 international festival of photojournalism – Perpignan, France.

 

PUBLISHED IN:

  • Newspapers: The Guardian, The Observer, The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Star, The Independent on Sunday, Wales on Sunday, South Wales Echo, METRO (UK), Politiken (Denmark), Fakt, Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita, Kurier Poranny (Poland), Star Tribune (USA)
  • Newspaper magazines: Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (Germany), Le Monde Magazine (France), Duzy Format of Gazeta Wyborcza (cover story, Poland), Helsingin Sanomat (its Sunday supplement, cover story, Finland).
  • Photo magazines: American Photo (USA), Digital Camera (UK), Digital Camera Polska (cover story, Poland), Fotografia i Aparaty Cyfrowe (Poland), FOTO Magazyn (Poland), Foto Kurier (Poland), Amateur Photographer (UK), Photography Monthly (UK), DC Photo (HK), Outdoor Photographer (USA), Click! (Malaysia) .
  • Airline inflight magazines: Holland Herald (KLM Duth Airlines), Morning Calm (Korean Air), Serendib (Sri Lankan Airlines), Etihad Airlines (United Arab Emirates), SilverKris (Singapore Airlines)
  • Travel magazines: The Sunday Times Travel magazine (UK), GEO (Germany), Afisha Mir (cover story, Russia), Globtroter (Poland), Out Traveler (USA), Get Lost! (Australia)
  • Other magazines:Be Magazine (France), Der Spiegel (Germany), Angora (Poland), Goethe-Institut (Germany), NEED magazine (USA), PROsport (Russia), Vacature (Belgium), New Welsh Review (Wales), Kruger (UK), Himal Southasian (Nepal), World Pulse Magazine (USA), HK Magazine (HK), Adbusters (USA)
  • Selected websites: time.com, lens.blogs.nytimes.com, BBC.com, yahoo.com, TheSun.com, TheGuardian.co.uk, DailyMail.com, WalesOnline.com, tvn24.pl, tvp.info, polskieradio.pl, eFakt.pl, fotopolis.pl, swiatObrazu.pl
  • In books from: Harper Collins, Lonely Planet, Editions Didier Millet, Wallflower Press, RBA Libros Spain, Pearson Education Canada, The Open University Milton Keynes.
  • Other clients: Roger Waters – “The Wall Tour”, ITV1, S4C TV UK, Channel 4 TV UK, Volkswagen, Starquest Expeditions, Mercy Corps, Terre d’Oc, Development and Peace Canada, Ager Meillier Films, SWN Festival.

“Cardiff After Dark” photos have been published worldwide and discussed in numerous radio and TV programs in UK, Poland, Germany and other countries.

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