When I started my business, there was no social media yet. There was Myspace, where a lot of artists had accounts, and it was mainly dedicated to musicians. So, I set up my account there. Anyone who remembers and has visited that space knows that Myspace was
This will be my personal analysis, based on 18 years of experience running my one-person business. While it may have some universal appeal, I assume that every entrepreneur, even in the same industry, has their own unique experience. I’d be lying if I said that all 18 years
It is difficult for me to imagine working with people and building good relationships without values in the background. I have been in business for 18 years and over this time I have developed certain standards not only for my own comfort at work, but above all for
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 to trust yourself when you’re at the beginning of the
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 a dose of the difficult emotions that the
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 caught the bug and found people (Gliwice Photographic Group) among whom
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 of the artists taking part in the festival.
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 newspaper Die Tageszeitung, on the occasion of the publication in Germany of the
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… I remember holidays in Greece where I was carrying this heavy equipment with me everywhere. I took pictures of the
Imagine you see an interesting person in the street and you intuitively feel that it would be a beautiful portrait. Nothing easier – walk up, introduce yourself, ask if you can. If only it were that easy… Many photographers have a big problem with