Joanna Piotrowska

Joanna Piotrowska
Born 1985 (age 32–33)
Warsaw, Poland
Nationality Polish
Known for Photography
Website joannapiotrowska.com

Joanna Piotrowska (born 1985) is a Polish photographer based in London.[1] She works primarily with black and white photography, focusing on themes of history, memory, and repetition.[2]

Education

Piotrowska earned an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2013.[2]

Career

Piotrowska's 2014 series "FROWST" is a series of staged family portraits. The photos were published in a book by the same name, which won the First Book Award in 2014.[3]

After winning one of the three Jerwood/Photoworks Awards in 2015,[4] Piotrowska 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.[5]

In 2016, she began her "Frantic" series, in which she asked adults to construct homemade forts from their personal belongings. She traveled to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, photographing her subjects in their homes.[6]

In 2018, a selection of Piotrowska's photographs were shown with 16 other contemporary artists in the Museum of Modern Art's Being: New Photography 2018 exhibition.[7]

Books

  • FROWST. London: Mack, 2014. By Joanna Piotrowska. ISBN 978-1910164105.

References

  1. ↑ "Southard Reid". Frieze. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 Woodward, Daisy. "The Talented Photographer Using Gesture to Empower Women". AnOther. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Winner: FROWST by Joanna Piotrowska". First Book Award. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Winners of the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 announced". Photoworks. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Fedorova, Anastasiia. "Black and White Photos That Show the Disturbing Side of Being a Teenage Girl". Broadly. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  6. ↑ Lesser, Casey. "15 Artists to Watch at SP-Arte". Artsy. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  7. ↑ Dinsdale, Emily. "How photography helps to capture what it means to be human". Dazed Digital. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
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