Mateusz JAŹWIECKI (born 1986, Poland) - self taught
documentary photographer, currently based in Warsaw. He has
been working as a photojournalist in Poland and abroad. For
extensive period of time he has been living in Afghanistan
where he was working on documenting everyday life of people
in this war torn country. Since then, his practice evolved into
more documentary and conceptual direction. After coming back
to Poland he had spent his time working on long term projects
which are aimed to capture changes in identity as of what it
means to be Polish nowadays. It involves working around issues
like nationalism, patriotism, attitude toward foreigners and
refugees, religion, history and tradition. Due to the background
he is able to look at his motherland through the fresh eyes. The
photographer is interested in documenting social issues and in
exploring slow pacing culture changes. He loves to travel, meet
new people, learn from them and sometimes even photograph
them.
