Biography
Sylwia Kowalczyk studied graphic design and photography at Krakow Academy of Fine Arts and the Edinburgh College of Art. Her work has recently been recognised in awards such as Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed by the Photographers’s Gallery and reGeneration 2. Her work was also recently featured in “The Decisive Moment: Contemporary Polish Photography Since 2000” by Adam Mazur.
Much of her work references classical painting, and the way in which anonymity or, on the contrary, recognition may affect the way we perceive the subject in an image.
She is also interested in exploring trompes-l’oeils, identity, fear, illusion and distortion in her photographic work.
