Agata Grzybowska
Photographer / Based in Poland, London, Ukraine
Polish visual artist and documentary photographer based in Poland. Represented by Ag Galerie in Iran. In her work, she is interested in people. She travels...
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About
Polish visual artist and documentary photographer based in Poland. Represented by Ag Galerie in Iran.
In her work, she is interested in people. She travels across the world depicting individuals in difficult, often life-threatening situations. While working, her principle is to get as close as possible to people and their stories. She considers herself a medium which enables other, underprivileged voices to be heard. She strongly believes that everyone has the right to their own story. She graduated from the Direction of Photography at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz. She has showed her works in Poland, Sydney, Los Angeles, Tokio, Tehran, Moscow, Madrid, Athens and Arles.
Recently she has collaborated with such film directors as Jonathan Glazer, Chloé Zhao, Jessie Eisenberg and Charlie Kaufmann.
She graduated from the Direction of Photography at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz. She teaches history of photojournalism and ways of seeing (culture of visuality) at SWPS University in Warsaw. She is Leica Camera Ambasador.
Today, she works as a freelancer, collaborating with magazines and media platforms in Poland and abroad, i.a. TIME, Telegraph Magazine, CNN, Der Spiegel, World Health Organization, AP, LFI Blog Online, Bloomberg UK, Vogue Polska, Pismo, Tygodnik Powszechny, Newsweek Polska, Digital Camera Poland, Multimedia Gazeta, etc., but also focuses on personal projects related to photography and film.
In her work, she is interested in people. She travels across the world depicting individuals in difficult, often life-threatening situations. While working, her principle is to get as close as possible to people and their stories. She considers herself a medium which enables other, underprivileged voices to be heard. She strongly believes that everyone has the right to their own story. She graduated from the Direction of Photography at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz. She has showed her works in Poland, Sydney, Los Angeles, Tokio, Tehran, Moscow, Madrid, Athens and Arles.
Recently she has collaborated with such film directors as Jonathan Glazer, Chloé Zhao, Jessie Eisenberg and Charlie Kaufmann.
She graduated from the Direction of Photography at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz. She teaches history of photojournalism and ways of seeing (culture of visuality) at SWPS University in Warsaw. She is Leica Camera Ambasador.
Today, she works as a freelancer, collaborating with magazines and media platforms in Poland and abroad, i.a. TIME, Telegraph Magazine, CNN, Der Spiegel, World Health Organization, AP, LFI Blog Online, Bloomberg UK, Vogue Polska, Pismo, Tygodnik Powszechny, Newsweek Polska, Digital Camera Poland, Multimedia Gazeta, etc., but also focuses on personal projects related to photography and film.
Education
The Film School in Lodz