I am a photographer with a special interest in making photographs in public to document the spirit of the times.
Born in Poland, I emigrated to Germany at ten years old. Over the years, my curiosity and engagement with photography as a contemporary art form grew steadily. During a two-year stay in New York City I had the chance to work with and learn from expert teachers in the field of street and documentary photography in the International Center of Photography School. After an inspiring journey trough South and North America, I moved back to Germany. Between 2022 and 2024 I was chairman of the local Photography Club Fotoclub Konstanz 1958 e.V.
Contact: hello@michaelkowalczyk.eu
Links
Photography – Flickr | Instagram | Grainery | Theta 360
Video – Youtube | Vimeo
Writing – Author Profile @ 35mmc.com
Publications – Published works
Interviews
2019 – Street Photography Magazine Podcast Interview with Bob Patterson
2018 – Fotopolis.pl Interview with Julia Kaczorowska
2018 – 121 Clicks Interview with Venkat Prakash
2018 – Xataka Interview with Jesus León
2017 – Szeroki Kadr Interview
2016 – Huffington Post Interview with Michael Sweet
Awards
2024 – Winner and receiver of the reFocus Trophy in the Category “Analog” non-professional at the reFocus Color Photography Contest 2024 with “Oumuamua”.
2022 – Winner and receiver of and Pangea Trophy in the Street Photography Category at the 2022 SIENA International Photography Awards with “Smokey Coat”
2022 – Winner of the “Urban Landscape” Pentaxforum June Contest 2022 with “Mirror City”
2020 – 2nd place and receiver of the Pangea Trophy in the Street Photography Category at the SIENA International Photography Awards 2020 with “Medellin Mirror”
2020 – 2nd place in the 2nd half WPE International Photography Awards 2022 with “Medellin Mirror”.
2019 – Finalist at the Leica Street Photo Awards 2019 with “Nuclear Island”
2019 – Finalist at the Italian Street Photography Festival 2019 with “Medellin Mirror”.
2019 – Finalist at the Urban Photo Awards 2019 with “Medellin Mirror”
2018 – Finalist at the Miami Street Photography Festival 2019 with “Freeze”
2018 – Winner of the Pentaxforum Contest “People, Candid or Street” 2018 with “Smokey Coat”
2017 – Finalist in the Category “The Street Photographer” at the EyeEm Photo Awards 2017 with “Exit on Wall Street”
2017 – 2nd place in the Urban Street Diving Contest 2017 with the Series “Rain Rush”
2016 – Winner of the Leica #shotonaleica Photowalk during Miami Street Photography Festival 2016 with “Fly away”
Group Exhibitions
2024 – Fotoclub Konstanz Various Locations
2022 – SIENA Awards “Imagine all the People Sharing all the World” Exhibition, Siena, Italy
2022 – Fotoclub Konstanz Various Locations
2020 – SIENA Awards “Imagine all the People Sharing all the World” Exhibition, Siena, Italy
2020 – Cafe Blende8, Leica Gallery & Store, Konstanz, Germany
2019 – Xposure, Expo Center, Sharjah, UAE
2019 – Street Photo Milano, Milano, IT
2018 – History Miami Museum, Miami, US
2018 – Leica Store & Cafe Mayfair, London, UK
2015 – EyeEm Container @ Photoville in Brooklyn, NYC, US
2010 – Video exhibition, Urban Styles 3.0, “Aachen Tilt Shift” in the Raststätte, Aachen, GER (Link)
2009 – Photo exhibition, Urban Styles 2.0, “Klingeln” in the Raststätte, Aachen, GER (Video)
Teaching Photography
2022 – Fotoclub Konstanz 1958 e.V. – Chariman, Konstanz, GER
2017 – Advanced Street Photography: Finding Your Voice – TA with Natan Dvir, ICP, NYC, US
2017 – Style and Evidence TA with Stephen Ferry, ICP, NY, US
Learning Photography
2017 – Portrait Lighting on Location: Natural and Flash with Bobbi Lane, ICP, NYC, US
2017 – Street Photography as Point of View with Jeff Mermelstein, ICP, NYC, US
2017 – The Documentary Project: The Photographer as Storyteller with Natan Dvir, ICP, NYC, US
2016 – In-Public Street Photography Workshop with Gus Powell and Charalampos Kydonakis (aka Dirty Harrry), NYC, US
2014 – What do you mean? with Paolo Woods, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria
2013 – Documentary Video with Ralf Marschalleck, Video/Film Tage 013, Institut für Medienpädagogik – Rheinland-Pfalz e.V., Koblenz, Germany