PIOTROWSKA, Joanna

About the Polish photographer, Joanna PIOTROWSKA (b.1985, in Warsaw)

Joanna PIOTROWSKA works primarily with black and white photography, focusing on themes of history, memory, and repetition. She earned an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2013. After winning one of the three Jerwood/Photoworks Awards in 2015, she focused on photographing teenage girls in self-defense poses. She shot the series in Poland, finding subjects through friends and casting agencies that worked with aspiring actresses. In 2016, she began her 'Frantic' series, travelling to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, photographing her subjects in their homes. Joanna PIOTROWSKA is actually based in London.

Photo books by Joanna PIOTROWSKA

'FROWST' (2014, her book debut); 'Frantic' (2017); 'Stable Vices' (2021)

FROWST
FROWST
The winner of the First Book Award 2014 includes staged family photos. 'FROWST' refers to Bert Hellinger’s therapeutic method 'Family Constellations'; the title' takes up the paradoxical nature of the family: Frowsty rooms are both cozy and claustrophobic
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PIOTROWSKA, Joanna - Stable Vices - AS SIGNED COPY!
PIOTROWSKA, Joanna - Stable Vices - AS SIGNED COPY!
'Stable Vices' by Joanna PIOTROWSKA is an ambitious photo volume that focuses on the concepts of protection, freedom and oppression, crystallizing a spectrum that runs like a thread through the Polish photographer's work and keeps driving her.
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