honorable mention
Michal Korta poland
title
Black Nude
Award winning portrait and documentary photographer. As a portrait photographer he works with press, publishers and agencies. Since 2006 he works on personal projects in Central Asia, US, Israel, Africa and in the Balkans. He had solo and group exhibitions in Poland, Italy, Israel, Spain, Germany, UK. He had published two photobooks, the Balkan Playground was nominated among the best photo books Poland in 2018. He is lecturer about photography in Poland and Switzerland. He is the managing director of KOWALSKY GALLERY.
Michal Korta belongs to a new generation of photographers for whom the photography of place is inseparable from the historical, political, emotional and spiritual undertones of contemporary life. Bringing together intimate portraits with images of human altered landscapes, he explores the realities of the land beyond its physical attraction. Main topics in his personal projects are often identity, social groups, territory questions and coincidences. In 2016 Art Verseed named him one of 5 Eastern European photographers to know.
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entry description
This set of black & white nude portraits is from an ongoing series I do for the last few years.about the photographer
Born and raised in Poland, lives and works near Krakow. He graduated photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (1998-2000) and Jagiellonian University in Krakow, German Literature (1997-2002).Award winning portrait and documentary photographer. As a portrait photographer he works with press, publishers and agencies. Since 2006 he works on personal projects in Central Asia, US, Israel, Africa and in the Balkans. He had solo and group exhibitions in Poland, Italy, Israel, Spain, Germany, UK. He had published two photobooks, the Balkan Playground was nominated among the best photo books Poland in 2018. He is lecturer about photography in Poland and Switzerland. He is the managing director of KOWALSKY GALLERY.
Michal Korta belongs to a new generation of photographers for whom the photography of place is inseparable from the historical, political, emotional and spiritual undertones of contemporary life. Bringing together intimate portraits with images of human altered landscapes, he explores the realities of the land beyond its physical attraction. Main topics in his personal projects are often identity, social groups, territory questions and coincidences. In 2016 Art Verseed named him one of 5 Eastern European photographers to know.
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