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Documentalist, sociologist, academic teacher.
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Makeshift
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A Mountain
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Łzy Szczęścia / Tears of Joy, 08.06 – 29.09.2024
I did documentations of the performance program of Tears of Joy exhibition in Zachęta gallery.
client: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
A postcard/illustration for Taco Hemingway’s Pocztówka z WWA, Lato ‘19 limited CD release.
Client: Taco Hemingway / Revolume
Matylda Krzykowski, designer, curator and lecturer, co-organiser of Depot Basel.
Client: Print Control
Sensitive Data / Dane wrażliwe
client: Following the Smartphone research project
From 2021 to 2025, I collaborated with a research team of the National Science Center (NCN) project "Following the Smartphone: Ethnography of New Urban Cultures of Networked Individuals." This interdisciplinary research focused on the broad impact of smartphones and other mobile devices with internet access—and the social practices that emerged around them.
I was responsible for the visual research and creation of visual material accompanying the project, combining photos, screenshots, and other images. Together with Mirosław Filiciak, we co-authored two texts based on the research and visual materials: in Widok (PL/ENG) and in Pismo (PL).
The team included Mirosław Filiciak, Mateusz Halawa, Magdalena Czarnecka, and Mateusz Felczak.
Portfolio shoots and documentation of various objects and publications designed by Martyna Wyrzykowska.
Art direction and set design: Martyna Wyrzykowska
Client: Martyna Wyrzykowska.
Spilling Pain is a short documentary film done as a cooperation between RATS Agency and Amnesty International, which main objective was to give voice to people who were directly affected by violence of Polish police. I co-directed it together with Filip Skrońc, and did most of the research behind it, together with still photography.
In the recent months we have witnessed a sharp rise in the use of excessive force by the police against women and men marching the streets, who are legally expressing their disagreement with the government’s policies. Non-violent protesters were tear gassed, kettled, fined and transported to remote police stations where they are detained for extended periods of time.
“We Protect and Serve” (Pomagamy i Chronimy) is the motto of the Polish Police. However, 88% of Poles state that in their opinion, the police have practiced torture or are still practicing torture, according to a recent poll by Kantar Millward Brown (2020).
This film, created in cooperation with Amnesty International is a powerful testimony given by the people who experienced violence from the hands of those we expect to protect us. We wish the police officers to see the people behind the masks, understand the effect their actions have and bear the responsibility for the powers vested in them.
directed by
PAWEŁ STARZEC & FILIP SKROŃC
camera, editing
FILIP SKROŃC
research, photography
PAWEŁ STARZEC
produced by
KAROL KRAS
sound, protest footage
ANTONI MANTORSKI
lighting
GRZEGORZ WEŁNICKI & KUBA KRYSIAK
special thanks to
RATS AGENCY: EWA MIELCZAREK, KAROL GRYGORUK, MICHAŁ DĄBROWSKI
&
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL POLAND: AGNIESZKA DĄBROWIECKA, ALEKSANDRA KISTOWSKA, DRAGINJA NADAŽDIN
Arkadiusz Szwed, ceramic designer, Head of Ceramics Workshop at School of Form, USWPS.
Client: Arkadiusz Szwed
Ludzie Tyskiego, advetrising portraying and interviewing regular people of Śląsk region of Poland, where Tyskie beer is brewed.
Client: Tyskie / KP
Production: Makata
Photo: Paweł Starzec
Casting: Dagny Mentrak
Agency: GONG
Executive producer: Jan Szczeniowski
Producer: Dominika Głuchowska
Polowanie na grzyby, Zofia Leszczyńska-Niziołek
client: Buchmann publishing house
I did photographs that illustrate a debut book by Zofia Leszczyńska–Niziołek on mushroom picking and mushrooms in general. Everything had to be natural and unposed as much as possible, so we, in fact, picked a lot of mushrooms during those sessions.