It seems for me that one of specific features of my art is linking together seemingly contradictory elements. One of the leads of my creative work can be named documentary and the other a conceptual one, but there are also my works in which these two threads are intertwined so strongly that it is impossible to separate them.

The best known in Poland documentary photographic series of mine is “A view from my window”. This series was awarded in 1977 with Grand Prix (the “Photography speaks” section) at the then most prestigious Polish photographic competition “Golden Amber”. It is noteworthy that idea of this competition, in form it had then, was conceived by Stefan Figlarowicz. This award helped me to create bonds of friendship with people involved with Polish documentary photography like already mentioned Stefan Figlarowicz and with Nina Smolarz, Krzysztof Barański or Andrzej Baturo. Also many of my other works, besides “A view from my window” , can be considered to belong to this genre: “Traces. Warsaw 1977”), “A backyard or theatre of real life”, “A flat” ….

On other hand I have made many works that are part of avant-garde and conceptual photography, such it had been developing in 1970s in Poland. In this respect I have to express my gratitude to Jagoda Przybylak, Zbyszek Dłubak and Janusz Bąkowski. Thanks to conversations with them, thanks to the fact they understood what I wanted to say with my pictures (it did not happen often these times) I was able to explore the world of my own with confidence. My first real individual exhibition took place in the “Mała Gallery” that was presenting photographers incessantly looking for new means of expression. The gallery was then run by Andrzej Jórczak. I was also exhibiting in this Gallery later, when Marek Grygiel became its director. All my exhibitions in the Mała Gallery were the first presentations of particular works and played significant role in development of my photographic oeuvre.

I would like to mention also how important for me was a purchase of my works for collection of the Art Museum in Łódź by Urszula Czartoryska, the museum’s curator of photography. I was then almost unknown young photographer who just started his artistic journey. The fact that an expert and unquestionable authority such was Urszula Czartoryska decided to make such gesture meant very much for me and was later very encouraging when difficult moments came.

Around year 2000 I started to make still another pictures. This third thread of my work is hardest for me to write about. One can say that I came back to photography that is understood in a very classical way – portraits, nudes, still life. I started to make this kind of photographs not to repeat something that others did better but to express my experiences in still another way.

But my “opus magnum” which I will never finish, is “Book of ancestors”. Its small fragments – such series as “Unknown, elderly man with a paunch” or “A picture of my grand grandparents” – I have already completed.