MARIUSZ FORECKI

Main Competition: Freedom Award sponsored by the City of Poznań juror.

Documentary photographer and author of photography books. For many years, he has been keenly observing human condition entangled in socio-political processes (Afghanistan, Armenia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Lithuania, Ukraine, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia). Forecki participated, among others, in the Dutch festival Noorderlicht, the Biennale of Photography in Prague, the Month of Photography in Bratislava, the Biennale of Photography in Poznań, and the KAUNASPHOTO festival. A graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography at the University of Silesia in Opava, Czech Republic, co-founder of the PIX.HOUSE Foundation. Winner of the Artistic Award of the City of Poznań in 2010 and a scholar of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.