18 years of my company! Golden advice to myself, sent to the past.

If I met myself today, the one from eighteen years ago, what would I say to myself then? Nowicka, listen: Do it your way – listen to your intuition. You may be tempted to imitate others. I know, it’s hard...

Portrait of a Woman

As the opening guests arrived, I could feel the air thickening with the buildup of emotions. I’ve opened quite a few of my exhibitions before, but this one was going to be different. Excitement and joy were mixed with...

18 years of my company! A telegraphic shorthand for these eighteen years.

I started photographing sometime around the turn of 2000/2001. My first attempts were of course analogue – I used the equipment of my Dad, who had a traditional photographic darkroom and several cameras. I quickly...

Business portrait shooting – concept: studio or outdoor?

Most often I take photographs in my Portrait Studio in Katowice. Sometimes I arrange studio conditions at the client’s company if we need the context of interiors in the photos or the client cannot...

Story of One Photo – Christopher Dell in the spaces of Katowice.

The Katowice JazzArt Festival 2020 promised to be amazing. At the invitation of Martyna van Nieuwland / Katowice Miasto Ogrodów, I was supposed to move into the space of the sounds of jazz and make a series of portraits...

Business portrait shooting – concept: a conversation about needs and expectations.

You know you need portraits to grow your brand and business, but completely clueless on how to go about it? No problem. We’ll talk and everything will become clear. An indispensable part of the cooperation is the creation of...

Story of One Photo – a portrait of Szczepan Twardoch.

It is 2018 and Martin Fejer from the Est&Ost press agency writes to me and commissions me to take portraits of Szczepan Twardoch. The photos gonna be used as illustrations for an interview in the German...

What photographic equipment do I go on holiday with?

In the years when I worked as a photojournalist, I took all the equipment I was using at the time everywhere – my camera plus a couple of lenses packed in a sizable bag. Too hard…...

What about self-acceptance? The inteview with Gabrysia Bartosik.

I remember our first meeting. It was in 2021, as part of the Art in the Service of Spirit and Body (Sztuka w Służbie Życia i Ciała) series organised by the Art for Life Foundation (Fundacja Sztuka dla Życia)...