BY COLOUR
Michał Adamski, Tomek Albin, Paweł Błęcki, Przemek Dzienis, Paweł Jaszczuk, Taro Karibe, Natalia Kolbiarz, Aneta Nytko, Agnieszka Sejud, Haruyuki Shirai, Studio Prokopiou, Masaru Takahashi, Yumiko Utsu, Ernest Wińczyk, Karolina Wojtas, Paweł Żak
exhibition & art fair
By colour
Group exhibition
26.11 – 21.12.2025
Honorary patron:
Opening: 26 November 2025, 19:00
Admission: free
„By colour” is a pre-Christmas exposition of collectible photography by artists from Poland, Japan and the United Kingdom. Within the IFF space, conscious and precise language of artistic expression will be on a par with experimentation, playfulness and reinterpretation – with the starting point being a pursuit of colour and form rather than theme or meaning.
It is an invitation to choose art as a Christmas gift and, at the same time, to give yourself a chance to discover your own aesthetic sympathies in the peaceful gallery interiors. And to approach the presented photographs with equal doses of insight, personal taste and subjective associations.
The offer will be complemented by the IFF shop, which will be stocked with new photography books, posters and original gadgets made by Karolina Wojtas and Agnieszka Sejud.
Artists
Michał Adamski
Documentary photographer. He concentrates primarily on long-term documentary projects. In his photographs he deals with social and documentary issues, with a great importance of a man and his life in the modern world. He also touches on personal topics, as exemplified by his 2015 book “I Can’t Get Through the Chaos”.
He graduated from the University of Life Sciences in Poznań in 2001 and began working on his family farm. At the age of 30, he discovered a passion for photography and started a gradual transition away from agriculture. He participated in workshops organized by Napo Images and Sputnik Photos and studied photography at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava.
He has been a recipient of scholarships from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2017) and the Marshal of the Greater Poland Voivodeship (2015 and 2024).
He is a co-founder of the Pix.House Foundation and Gallery. He is also a member of the Archive of Public Protests collective. He is the author of the photobooks “Nie mogę przebrnąć przez chaos”, “Two Tailed Dog”, and “Ciemno w dzień, ciemno w nocy” (“Dark in the Day, Dark at Night”).
His works have been exhibited widely across Poland, as well as in Portugal, Germany, France, Lithuania and the USA.
Tomek Albin
Tomek Albin is a visual artist, photographer, and video director who deliberately bridges the language of art with the tools and aesthetics of the commercial world. He is a graduate of the University of Fine Arts in Poznań and the Łódź Film School.
At the core of his practice lies an image constructed with precision and intention. Tomek’s work is distinguished by meticulous planning, visual consistency, and creativity rooted in a deep understanding of the medium. His ability to work with light and attention to detail is evident across still life, landscapes, atmospheric portraits, and conceptual advertising films.
He often initiates or co-develops creative concepts where the message is just as important as the form. His projects combine a reflection on visual meaning with a strong sense of composition. He draws inspiration from geometry, sculpture, and nature.
For many years, he has also been affiliated with the Łódź Film School as a lecturer in the Cinematography Department. Through his own studio course, he actively supports the development of young visual artists. Sharing knowledge, offering inspiration, and accompanying new generations on their creative paths is an integral part of his professional practice.
Paweł Błęcki
Born in Gdańsk (Poland). Photographer, sculptor, cultural animator. Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Doctoral student at Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Paweł Błęcki graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk where he majored in Photography, and Intermedia at the Multimedia Communication Faculty of the University of Arts in Poznań. He also studied Archaeology and Cultural Studies at the University of Gdańsk and Photography at the FAMU Film School in Prague.
His artistic practice explores themes related to psychoeducation, mental well-being, and psychology. He explores topics related to collective care, ecology, sociology, and politics.
Since 2019, he has led art therapy workshops in which he recreates traditional handicrafts, set in a contemporary context. He was a member of the Zbiór Pusty collective, whose activities focused on the multifaceted relationship between humans and nature. He co-founded the Interspecies Community+ project, which aims to provide care for both human and non-human beings. He is also a co-founder of the Biuro Wspólnej Aktywności project, which focuses on sustainable production and accessibility in the field of art.
Przemek Dzienis
Born in 1984 in Łódź, is a graduate of the Photography program at the Cinematography Department of the National Film School in Łódź. He creates works that are simple in form yet precisely composed, distant from pathos and resistant to overinterpretation. He is interested in sculptural forms and space, as well as the positioning of the human figure in relation to them.
The artist has exhibited his works in numerous art galleries both in Poland and abroad – including in Warsaw, Poznań, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. He has photographed for leading Polish magazines such as MaleMEN, Pani, Viva Moda, Kukbuk, and Wysokie Obcasy, and has also directed music videos for artists such as Natalia Szroeder, Brodka, Artur Rojek, and the duo Karaś/Rogucki, for which he has received multiple KTR awards. He is a two-time Fryderyk Award winner and has also been recognized with a Music Video Award.
Paweł Jaszczuk
His work focuses on contemporary culture, identity, and everyday rituals, often revealing tensions between the worlds of labour, consumption, and fantasy.
Jaszczuk’s works have been presented at numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Zen Foto Gallery in Tokyo, Leica Gallery in Warsaw and Vienna, and during Triennial of Photography in Hamburg.
He is the author of many photo albums, including Salaryman, “Kinky City”, “High Fashion”, and “¥€$U$”.
Taro Karibe
Born 1988 in Aichi. Tokyo-based artist and photographer.
An artist and photographer whose work explores the structures and biases embedded in AI and photographic media from a Post-Photography perspective. Returning to the foundations of human–machine recognition systems, his practice recursively interrogates the act of seeing itself.
Natalia Kolbiarz
Visual artist. In her practice, she explores the power relations between humans and the plant world, as well as their roles within economic systems. She is interested in the nature of the image – its truth and its potential for manipulation. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and a student at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań. Her works have been exhibited at the State Gallery of Art in Sopot, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, and the National Museum in Gdańsk.
Aneta Nytko
Born in 1975, the photographer is currently based in Kraków. She has been a member of the ENOUGH PHOTOS collective since 2019.
Her artistic practice explores the relationships between memory, space, and emotion. She is interested in both personal and cultural memory — the traces of the past inscribed in the body, architecture, and landscape. By combining documentary photography with poetic imagery, she creates narrative projects in which photography becomes a medium of introspection, metaphor, and reflection. Her work addresses themes of identity, mythology, interpersonal relationships and emotions, as well as the tension between what is visible and what remains hidden.
Haruyuki Shirai
Tokyo based photographer who aims to examine the possibilities of photography by creating unique techniques and situations. In the forest of the suburbs of Tokyo, he presents his imaginative pre-historical tribe characters which refers to actual tribes, analogical metaphors and figures from the history of photography. On another project, “Panorama” he remodels a film camera which exposes images of the distorted moment. By de-constructing the meaning of memory and photography, Shirai aims to re-create the image literally as a photographic illusion.
As he says about his work: “Starting from the invention of the technique, my method produces a magical sense of humour. The allegory of illusion, this photographic philosophy is my guiding principle”.
Agnieszka Sejud
Sejud uses various media to explore different aspects of her identity, the idea of individual freedom, and systems of oppression constraining people’s independence. She aims to deconstruct and dismantle them using research and artistic tools.
Her practice includes photography, digital and analogue collage, books and zines, videoart and installations. Sejud often employs deformations of imagery to express her purposes and ideas. Her works have been exhibited internationally.
Studio Prokopiou
Born in the Republic of South Africa to a family of Greek immigrants, he is currently based in London. A self-taught photographer, he founded Studio Prokopiou in 2014, together with his life and artistic partner, Panos Poimenidis, originally from Greece.
Their work explores self-creation and identity, drawing on references from art history, pop culture, and classical mythology, while embracing a camp aesthetic. The resulting images are the outcome of an ongoing dialogue between the duo and their subjects. This year, Wet Paint, a book by Studio Prokopiou, was awarded the title of Photographic Publication of the Year 2025.
Masaru Takahashi
Born in Yokosuka, Japan, 1971. Japanese artist and photographer, graduate of Toyo University (1994) and the Tokyo College of Photography (1996). In his practice, he combines documentary sensitivity with formal experimentation, exploring the relationship between the photographic image and contemporary visual culture.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Japan and abroad, including at the Towada Art Center (2013), MIF Art Book Library/La Pausa (2015, 2016), Antenna Media in Kyoto (2017), FOTOFEVER in Paris (2017), in Athens (“Pale Red Dot”, 2018), and in Poland (“Provoke 2.0”, 2018; “Copy & Paste”, 2022). His works have also been shown as part of the NEW JAPAN PHOTO project, with which he has been collaborating since its inception.
Takahashi has published in magazines and zines such as NTMY, HUNGRY, JP_EN, and NEW JAPAN PHOTO, and has taken part in major international art book fairs, including the LA Art Book Fair, the New York Art Book Fair, and The Tokyo Art Book Fair.
He is a recipient of distinctions from the Athens Photo Festival (2018) and a finalist of the IMA NEXT competitions (#32 Fashion and #41 Open Call). His works and publications are featured on platforms such as Self Publish, Be Happy, Space Cadet, and PHmuseum.
Yumiko Utsu
Born in Arakawa-ku, Tokyo in 1978. She started photography in high school, riding the girly photo boom. While studying at Waseda University, he was further immersed in the fascination of photography and completed the professional photographer course at the Tokyo School of Photography after dropping out of school. After working at Shoto Studio for a year and a half, she became a private assistant and started her career as a photographer around 2005, teaching at a photography school from 2006, and after giving birth in 2011, she has been working as an artist.
Ernest Wińczyk
During his 15 years of working in commercial photography, Ernest has distinguished himself as one of the most recognisable Polish photographers of his generation. His unique style in photographing still life, design, art and interiors is characterised by vivid colours, rich composition and ironic camp. His artistic education (graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw) shaped his sensitivity to the relationship between object and space. That is why, in addition to photography itself, set design and prop styling are equally important elements of his work during photo shoots.
Karolina Wojtas
Photographer born in 1996 in Poland. She graduated from Lodz Film School in Poland and Institute of Creative Photography in the Czech Republic. She draws from the imagination of children and transforms this material into walk-in installations. She may be inspired by the mess in her grandfather’s garden or a large ice rink. It is impossible to sneak through her exhibitions, as they are often filled with glitter or balloons, but one can feel like a child in them – play, throw things around and scribble. In the summer of 2019, she opened her own museum in home village in Poland.
Paweł Żak
Born in 1965 in Poland, a photographer, PhD in Fine Arts, and member of
the Association of Polish Art Photographers. His work focuses on staged photography and still lifes, characterized by formal clarity, symbolic reduction, and poetic silence.
He uses both digital and traditional darkroom techniques.
His key photographic series include Stories, Untitled, A Close Acquaintance, And Other Still Lifes, and It Is and It Is Not. In 1998, he received the Prix de la Lumière in Vevey, and in 2004, represented Poland at the Rencontres d’Arles. His works are in public collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the National Museum in Warsaw.
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