Wojtek Zagorski

My name is Wojtek (eng. Adalbert) and I’d been doing photography probably before I could even walk. When I was 5 years old, my parents gave me first “camera”, which was actually a purple toy with flash (and which I just recalled myself about while writing this bio). The first genuine camera I was attempting to operate was my dad’s old analog Zenith that I had no clue what to do with and I allegedly crashed it within a few minutes of putting my hands on it. Then my grandpa gave me a point-and-shoot Olympus when I was 11, so I immediately began shooting random objects. What seemed to be driving me from the beginning was the childish curiosity of the amazing technology and complicated, fascinating devices rather than the actual art itself. For years I was severely suffering from “GAS” – Gear Acquisition Syndrome, quite common amongst photographers.

Anyway, the magic and the beauty of this art I slowly began discovering and exploring long, long afterwards.

While studying at law school I photographed weddings, other ceremonies and various events. Every opportunity to create images and make such a contribution to the life of others gave me joy and satisfaction incomparable to anything I’d been doing before. I could already combine som...

University of Lodz / Master of Laws
PhD candidate in copyright law
Harvard Law School / CopyrightX (copyright law)

Trieste Photo Festival, Ronchi dei Legionari, Italy (2019) - group exhibition