Wiktoria Wojciechowska—photographer, visual artist.
Winner of the Oskar Barnack Leica Newcomer Award 2015 - project “Short Flashes”, La Quatrieme Image Young Talents 2015 and Humanity Photo Awards 2015 in documentary category, IPA Awards 2015—two Honorable Mentions. Her series “Own Place” won the Photo Diploma Award 2013 international contest of photographic diplomas. She has just completed the project “Sparks” in the territory of conflict in Ukraine which won Portfolio Review on Krakow Photomonth 2015. She was nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass 2016, Unseen Young Talents, Lucie Foundation Emerging Artists, Visura Grant, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and Foam Paul Huf Award.
She took part in artist residencies in Reykjavik and Beijing and is the recipient of Prix pour la Photographie 2016 by Fondation des Treilles.
Her works were also presented during the festivals in Arles, Paris, Lille, Minsk, Bratyslava, Warsaw, Ljubljana, Niort and published in magazines such as the British Journal of Photography, Causette, GUP, ArchivoZine, Gente di Fotografia, L’Oeil de la photographie, Life Framer, Wysokie Obcasy, Leica Fotografie International, Fotografia Magazine, Duży Format, FT Weekend Magazine, and the Guardian.
Her first book “Short Flashes” published by Bemojake came out in May 2016.
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LensCulture Emerging Talent 2016: Portraits of the ordinary (and extraordinary) people who have been fighting the war in Ukraine—these images reveal a wide range of emotions and illustrate the lasting traumas that war leaves in its wake.
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