Marek M.Berezowski

Photojournalist, graduate of the Photography programme at the Łódź Film School (PWSFTviT) and the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of WarsawRecipient of a scholarship from the National Centre for Culture in 2016..

He focuses on long-term documentary projects, including Blast, about the war in Ukraine (since 2015); Not a Black Swan, about the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland (2020–2022); and Citymorphosis, about metropolitan areas in Poland, China, Russia and Germany (2013–2017. The photobook Citymorphosis was published in 2017.His work is held in the collection of the National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning.

He has received awards in several press photography competitions, including Grand Press Photo (2022–2025), BZ WBK Press Foto (2014 and 2016) and Newsreportaż (2008). He also won the Leica Street Photo competition in 2016 and 2020 and was a finalist for the Krzysztof Miller Award in 2022His work has been exhibited at events including Photoville in New York, Boutographies – Rencontres Photographiques in Montpellier, the Photon Festival in Valencia and the Opole Photography Festival.

The BLAST Project

Birdsong drowns out the explosions. Motionless pupils watch as fire consumes yet another stretch of life. The smell of death mingles with the scent of freshly washed laundry. This is war, and the most vulnerable suffer the most. A story of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine told through the lens of everyday life.