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A photographer. He was born in 1950 in London to a Polish family. Following his studies at the London College of Printing, he came to Poland in 1973 for a few months and stayed here until today.

 

At the beginning of the 1980s he cooperated with the American edition of the Newsweek weekly, and since 1985 – with Time magazine. The latter commissioned him to prepare picture stories of Eastern and Central Europe, the Soviet Union and the Balkans. In 1980, he witnessed the birth of the free trade union “Solidarity” during the strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk; in December 1981 – the introduction of martial law in Poland, and he then documented the fall of communism in 1989. For a few years he also worked for the German weekly Der Spiegel.

 

He won an award at the 1986 World Press Photo competition for his portrait of the Hungarian leader, János Kádár.  

 

Three albums of his photographs have been published in Poland: People’s Republic of Poland. Props (BOSZ 2004), 13/12. Poland under Martial Law(Edipresse 2006) and In Your Face. Images of the Recent Past (edition.fotoTAPETA 2011).

 

In recent years, his work included a series of photographs of mentally handicapped children, which he exhibited in many cities in Poland and abroad (e.g. Taboo. Portraits of the Unportrayed; We are Working; Letters to My Son). He recently described his experience as a photographer in the autobiographical book Profession: Photographer (Wydawnictwo Marginesy, Warsaw 2011).