Joanna Figarska – born in 1987 in Lublin, Poland. In 2011, she graduated from Polish Philology at the University of Wrocław. A literary and art critic by education, she currently practices artistic and commercial photography. She embarked on the journey with photography by completing a study at the Center for Creative Attitudes in Wrocław. There, under the supervision of Filip Zawada and Krzysiek Solarewicz, she worked on the book of photography entitled If we lived in the forest. In 2016, she had her first individual exhibition, Międzyczasy (In-between-times), which was shown in Kraków, Warsaw, Wrocław and Starachowice. In 2020, she released the zin. Two years later, her photos were shown at the international photography exhibition in Canelas, Portugal. She also co-organized a one-day pop-up exhibition, Oddech, presenting photographers from Wrocław for the benefit of Ukrainians (where she also presented her photos). She is the winner of the Open Call organized as part of the Wrocław Photography Festival, during which she had an individual photographic exhibition "Karol licked the photos".Figarska is currently working on another publication, Disappearing Water. She lives and works in Wroclaw (Poland).

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