Piotr Pawlak

Piotr Pawlak (b. 1982) is a photographer working at the intersection of documentary and personal visual narrative. For over twenty years, he has worked with images, employing both classical analog techniques and contemporary digital tools. His practice brings together the precision of craftsmanship and the intuition of an observer.
He creates in the rhythm of places and people. His photographs are produced both within institutional contexts—where he has worked, among others, on the digitization and preservation of visual heritage at the National Museum in Warsaw—and in the field. He is a co-creator of the project “Obecnie nieobecni – Currently Absent,” which explores the memory of places and their present-day functions, where photography becomes a tool for recovering history and questioning what has disappeared.
In his daily practice, he works with both digital cameras and classical medium- and large-format equipment. He often returns to analog processes and darkroom work, treating photography as a physical, almost artisanal act of creation.
His works have been presented, among others, at the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, and in the Polish Parliament. He creates pho...