About the Polish photographer, Tomasz GUDZOWATY (b.1971)

Tomasz GUDZOWATY is a Polish documentary and portrait photographer who has won many major international photography competitions, including World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International. He has spent the last two decades pursuing diverse subjects from wildlife to social issues and sport, creating a body of work with a consistent visual message and intellectual vision. His photography has been exhibited globally and published in magazines and newspapers such as max, L’equipe, Newsweek, Forbes, Time, Photo, GQ, The Guardian, National Geographic, British Journal of Photography, and Vogue Italia. He has already published several photo volumes.

Photo books by Tomasz GUDZOWATY (a selection)

  • 'Shipwreckers' (2011); 'Keiko' (2012); 'Photography as a new kind of Love Poem' (2016); 'Closer' (2016); 'Beyond the Body' (2016); 'Proof' (2016); 'All Eyes' (2017); 'SUMO' (2022);

'Proof' by Tomasz GUDZOWATY is an attempt to utilize the aesthetics of chance hidden in the waste products of Polaroid Type 55 film. This was cult among those who used large format cameras because it produced positive instant prints as well as negatives.
30,00 € * Weight 1.3 kg
Wildlife photography of Tomasz GUDZOWATY in his 'Closer' is characterized by a technical & aesthetic sophistication. The book shows his keen observation of both general patterns & the smallest details bringing closer to the inner life & beauty of nature.
88,00 € * Weight 1.4 kg
For his photo volume 'Sumo', Tomasz GUDZOWATY works with the rebellious aesthetic of 'are-bure-bokeh' (rough, blurred, out of focus). A style that emerged in Japan in the 1960s as a counter-current to the prevailing norm of photojournalism at the time.
58,00 € *
The out-of-print photo book 'Keiko' by World Press photo awarded photographer Tomasz GUDZOWATY documents the life of ship scrappers in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where 30 to 40 percent of all 700 ocean-going vessels decommissioned each year are cannibalized.
48,00 € * Weight 1.5 kg