born: 1974 Hrubieszow
lives in Zabki
www.pokrycki.com

Having graduated from the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz, Pokrycki is a press photographer, interested above all in social themes. For three years he has worked on a cycle of documentary portraits showing families during the most important ceremonies in the Catholic life: Christenings, First Communions, weddings and funerals [The Rites of Passage (Rytualy przejscia), 2007]. He also photographed workers in the declining industrial plants [Labourers (Robotnicy), 2003]. He has cooperated with the newspaper Super Express and the Photography Agency Reporter, and currently works with such magazines as Przekroj, Claudia or Computerworld.

selected exhibitions:

2007 The Rites of Passage, Starmach Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2006 The New Documentalists, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Month of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia
Poland Now, Photomonth in Cracow, Poland; Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2002 Blow-up, Photographs in Times of Commotion, Festival of Black and White Photography, in Zakopane; Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland


 
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