Born in 1977 in Jastrzebie Zdroj (Poland), Damian Chrobak is a member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers since 2010, founder of Un-Posed – street photography collective assembling several leading artists of this stream who were born in Poland but work in different countries.
After studying at Academy of Photography in Warsaw, Poland, Damian Chrobak moved to London in 2004, where he completed a Black & White Photography course at the University of Arts in London. Since then he is documenting city’s street life. His works were published in United Kingdom, Germany, United States of America, New Zealand, Poland and other European countries. Damian Chrobak is also an author of some covers for books and recordings. Currently photographer is based in London and working on his documentary and street photography projects.
Street photography is characterized by extreme sensitivity to aesthetic, psychological and sociological insight. Photographer fishes out of the course of events surrounding the seemingly insignificant moments and reveals their special importance. ‘’Special for me in photography is a deeply humane reflection on the nature of an individual or social masses.’’ Capturing everyday life, he says, "we are surrounded by it the most of the time, while barely noticing it." This proves that the so-called ordinary, insignificant moments in life often have their hidden meaning, are interesting, funny, bizarre and memorable. Strolling through the streets of the twenty-first-century city, I try to capture on film something timeless, the eternal truth about people, the truth of which has not changed for hundreds, thousands of years.
EDUCATION
2007 University of the Arts London, Black and White Photography, UK
2004 Academy of Photography, PL
PUBLICATIONS
Doc! Magazine
Digital Photographer
Foto Kurier
Foto
Radiate
Guardian
Photo + Paper
SJ Records
Fotografia & aparaty cyfrowe
Agora
I heart magazine
Zwierciadlo
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Polish Street, Polish Trust Museum, Auckland
Everywhere I look, I'm being looked at, MDK Kaleria Lazienkowska, Warsaw
2014
Modern World, Ney Gallery, Warsaw
Majdan - Daily Life, London
2013
Hunter's, Stara Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw
2012
Make-up line, Firley Gallery, Wroclaw
2010
London - City in England, Firley Gallery, Wroclaw
London - City in England, Stara Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw
2007
Street Photography, The Titchy Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Niepozowane by Un-Posed collective, Brain Damage Gallery, Lublin, Poland
2015
Kaunas Photo, Lithuania
2012
Eastreet - exhibition of street photography from eastern europe, Lublin
Podgladacz czy kreator, Warsaw
2012
The view of the other, Berlin
London Festval of photography, London
Street Game's, Leica Gallery, Warsaw
2011
Na marginesie spoleczenstwa, Luxembourg
Polish Perspective, London
2009
Poetyka miejsca, Jablonskich Gallery, Warsaw
2007
Portrait of the artist a young pole. City Hall, London
ASSOCIATIONS
Member of Association of Polish Art Photographers, ZPAF