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May 16 \u2013 May 30, 2026
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Emily Warren Roebling Plaza<\/a>
1 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Featuring:
Marek M. Berezowski, Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski, Agata Grzybowska, Kuba Kaminski, Tomasz Lazar, Maciek Nabrdalik, J\u0119drzej Nowicki, Magdalena Rigamonti, and Maciej Stanik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the face of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine\u2014an assault not only on a sovereign nation but on its very culture and language\u2014a dedicated group of Polish photojournalists has stood on the front lines as the primary witnesses for the global community. 'The Eyes of War,’ a powerful multi-documentary exhibition, will be featured at the 15th Annual Photoville Festival this May at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The project showcases the work of nine award-winning Polish correspondents who have documented the human cost of the struggle for freedom, ensuring that the truth of this conflict remains visible to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not a war in Ukraine, this is a war by Russia against Ukraine, against the people, the society, the nation. Against Ukrainian culture and language. Against a country that has been free, independent, and sovereign since August 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 11 years, Vladimir Putin has been trying to destroy this strong country by annexing Ukraine\u2019s Crimea and Donbas. On February 24, 2022, he invaded Ukraine and intended to conquer it in three days. Four years of war have passed, with the Russian president\u2019s soldiers committing war crimes, murder, torture, and rape. This is documented by Polish photographers, who are the largest group of foreign correspondents in Ukraine. They are the eyes of this war. Their photos are shown in the media around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Eyes of War\u201d is a long-term and multi-documentary project of the Polish Press Club presenting photos of the war against Ukraine by photographers from Poland, including Marek M. Berezowski, Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski, Agata Grzybowska, Kuba Kami\u0144ski, Tomasz Lazar, Maciek Nabrdalik, J\u0119drzej Nowicki, and Maciej Stanik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition is curated by Ewa Meissner, with texts by Magdalena Rigamonti. The project is produced by Jaros\u0142aw W\u0142odarczyk and Press Club Polska. The project partner is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, and the organizers of the exhibitions in the individual countries are Polish foreign missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT THE ARTIST <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marek M. Berezowski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marek M. Berezowski, born 1983, is a documentary photographer and photojournalist and graduate of the Photography Department at the National Film School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Warsaw University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was a Grand Press Photo prizewinner in 2022, 2023, and 2024; finalist of the Krzysztof Mille contest; prizewinner of the BZ WBK Press Photo prize in 2014 and 2016; Leica Street Photo Contest in 2020; and Newsreporta\u017c (Newsweek Polska Press Contest) in 2008. He is also a grant holder from the Republic of Poland\u2019s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of his works were shown during the Month of Photography Los Angeles, The Boutographies \u2013 Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier, Photon Festival in Valencia. Major projects include Not a Black Swan: Covid Pandemic <\/em>(2020-2022), Blast: War in Ukraine <\/em>(since 2015), and Citymorphosis: Poland, China, Russia, Germany <\/em>(2013-2017). In 2017 Citymorphosis<\/em> was published as a photobook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He participated in the Eddy Adams Workshop 2024 and collaborates with the \u201cReporter\u201d press agency and Magazyn Opinii,<\/em> Pismo<\/em>. His photos have been published by The Guardian<\/em>, The Atlantic<\/em>, and CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wojciech Grzedzinski, photojournalist, states, \u201cPhotography is a tool for understanding and discovering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willingness to document the human condition and convey strong emotions is always in the center of his photography. For years, he reported armed conflicts and their consequences in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Georgia, and Ukraine. Between 2011\u20132015, he was chief of photographers and the official photographer of the President of the Republic of Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work has been awarded in competitions such as World Press Photo, Visa D\u2019Or, NPPA, POY, Siena Awards, TIFA, Sony World Photography Awards, Grand Press Photo, and many others. He is an author of the Picture of the Year (2009) and Picture of the Decade (2014) in the BZWBK Press Photo competition and Picture of the Year in Grand Press Photo (2022, 2023, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his career, he has regularly been a jury member and head of the jury in international and Polish photography competitions. He is a scholar of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and a member of the Association of Polish Artist Photographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agata Grzybowska<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agata Grzybowska, born 1984, is a photographer, photojournalist, and video creator living and working in Warsaw. She graduated in photography from the Cinematography Department of the National Film School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. She teaches photography at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. In 2017, she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as part of the \u201cYoung Poland\u201d program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012-2019, she worked as a photojournalist for Gazeta Wyborcza<\/em>. She currently collaborates with many magazines, media platforms, and non-governmental organizations in Poland and abroad and focuses on her own photography and film projects. She has published in, among others, Wysokie Obcasy<\/em>, Du\u017cy Format<\/em>, Vogue Polska<\/em>, Pismo<\/em>, Tygodnik Powszechny<\/em>, Newsweek Polska<\/em>, Digital Camera Poland<\/em>, Bloomberg, CNN, and Der Spiegel<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her works have been shown at the Guardhouse of the National Centre for Culture Gallery, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, the Contemporary Museum in Wroc\u0142aw, the European Cultural Centre in Gda\u0144sk, the Institute of Culture in Bucharest, the Institute of Photography in Tokyo, the AG Gallerie in Tehran, and the Delmar Gallery in Sydney, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She published a photobook titled 9 Gates, Returning Not One<\/em> (2017, Blow Up Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kuba Kami\u0144ski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kuba Kami\u0144ski is a graduate of the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Film School in Poland. He began his career in 2005 as a photographer for the daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita<\/em>, later working for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) and collaborating with the French daily Le Monde<\/em>. Since 2020, he has served as a videographer and editor for Euronews and France24, with his work also featured by Al Jazeera English, CNN, and The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2022, he has worked exclusively for ABC News, covering the wars in Ukraine and Israel. He collaborates with top ABC News correspondents, including David Muir, Martha Raddatz, and Ian Pannell, filming for Good Morning America<\/em> and World News Tonight with David Muir<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His accolades include a win at the 45th News & Documentary Emmy\u00ae Awards, the National Press Photographers Association\u2019s Best of Photojournalism (USA), the China International Press Photography Contest (CHIPP), and the International Photography Awards (USA). In Poland, he was awarded the Grand Prix in the National Geographic competition and the Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski Award. He was selected for the prestigious World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2011, the 2012 Getty Reportage Emerging Talent, and the inaugural New York Times<\/em> Portfolio Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2005, he has documented events across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, including the annexation of Crimea, the wars in Ukraine and Libya, the Gaza Strip, the Papacy in Rome, and the official visits of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump to Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomasz Lazar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomasz Lazar is an independent photographer, artist, and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Szczecin, currently living in Warsaw. Since 2014, he has been a Fujifilm Global Ambassador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is the winner of awards including: World Press Photo, Picture of the Year International, CHIPP, Sony World Photography Award, BZ WBK Press Photo, Grand Press Photo, and Lumix Festival for Young Journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His works have been published in many prestigious titles, such as: The New York Times<\/em>, Newsweek International<\/em>, Sunday Times Magazine<\/em>, The New Yorker<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em> and New York<\/em> Magazine. In 2016, he was chosen as one of 12 participants in the Joop Swart Masterclass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His projects have been shown at photo festivals in Europe, Asia and America. For his project \u201cTheater of Life,\u201d he won the Grand Prix and Photo Festival in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is primarily interested in long-term projects focusing on society and the human mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ewa Meissner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ewa Meissner (born in 1971, Warsaw, Poland) is a documentary photographer, curator, and photo editor. In 2000-2005, she studied journalism at the Faculty of Political Science at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. She is a co-founder and documentary photographer of the Napo Images agency, a member of Press Club Poland, and a Fujifilm Ambassador in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She worked as a curator and co-organizer of photo exhibitions with the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, the Old Gallery of the Association of Polish Art Photographers in Warsaw, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Center of Japanese Art and Technology \u201cManngha\u201d in Crakow, and The Slendzinski Gallery in Bialystok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2010, she has been lecturing on press photography and photo editing at the Institute of Journalism of the University of Warsaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is the editor of the photo books: BEBOK<\/em> by Karolina Jonderko, ECHO<\/em> by Maksymilian Rigamonti, The STAKE<\/em> by Maksymilian Rigamonti, Stigma<\/em> by Adam Lach, Two Tailed Dog <\/em>by Michal Adamski, Message<\/em> by Maciej Jeziorek, Some Things are Quieter Than Others<\/em> by Jacek Fota, and NYC #02<\/em> by Wojtek Wieteska, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is the author of the Polish Documentary Photography Links (PDPL) profile on Facebook, where she promotes Polish documentary photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maciek Nabrdalik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maciek Nabrdalik is an award-winning photojournalist, recognized in both Polish and international photojournalism competitions including World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, and The Best of Photojournalism. Nabrdalik is also the recipient of the Grand Press Photo 2007 Picture of the Year award and the Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski Award from the Polish Press Agency (PAP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work has been exhibited and published in magazines around the world. He is a long-time contributor to The New York Times<\/em> and has been associated with VII Photo since 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is the author of three books: The Irreversible<\/em> (2013), which focuses on the survivors of Nazi concentration camps (educational edition reissued in 2014); Homesick<\/em> (2016), portraying the lives of those affected by the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl; and OUT<\/em> (published in January 2018 by The New Press in the US), which presents a portrait of the LGBTQ community in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2016\/2017 academic year, he studied at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nabrdalik teaches photojournalism at the L. Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, and is a lecturer at the VII Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u0119drzej Nowicki<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u0119drzej Nowicki is a documentary photographer who focuses on Eastern Europe, specifically Belarus and Ukraine. His work delves into the underlying mechanisms of systemic violence in the region. He is fascinated by humanity\u2019s pursuit of freedom, whether it be on an individual level or within whole societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has covered the revolution in Belarus for The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, photographed wartime Kyiv for The Washington Post<\/em>, and portrayed President Volodymyr Zelensky for The New Yorker<\/em>. He has published photo essays on the war in Ukraine in The Atlantic<\/em> and contributed to numerous European magazines, including Le Monde<\/em>, Lib\u00e9ration<\/em>, Die Zeit<\/em>, and The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowicki has been awarded the Luis Valtuena Award and World Report Award. He is also Ian Parry Scholarship alumnus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magdalena Rigamonti<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magdalena Rigamonti is a journalist at Onet.pl specializing in interviews. For 10 years, she worked for the weekly Newsweek<\/em>, followed by the weekly Wprost<\/em>, and from 2016 to 2022 for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is a winner of the Dariusz Fikus Award, Grand Press, and Mediator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has authored books including Straty. \u017bo\u0142nierze z Afganistanu \u2013 Casualties: Soldiers from Afghanistan<\/em> and Jak powstaje cz\u0142owiek \u2013 How a Man is Made<\/em> (with Maksymilian Rigamonti). In 2019, together with Maksymilian Rigamonti, she won the Photobook of the Year award in the Pictures of the Year (POY) competition for the book Echo,<\/em> about the Volhynian Massacre. Her latest book is Niewygodni. M\u00f3wi\u0105 prawd\u0119 o wojnie \u2013 The Inconvenient: Telling the Truth About War<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is a member of the Press Club Polska board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maciej Stanik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maciej Stanik is an award winning photojournalist. Accolades include the Dariusz Fikus Award, 2024; Grand Press, 2024; Finalist for Poland\u2019s Photojournalist of the Year, 2020; first place in the photo reportage category, Grand Press Photo, 2020; second place in the everyday life category, Grand Press Photo, 2020; and honorable mention at the Viva! Photo Awards, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He started working as a photojournalist in 2008 in Lodz, Poland, in one of the local newspapers of the Polska Press publishing house. He switched to freelance in early 2016. Currently, he cooperates with the editors of Natemat.pl and Wirtualna Polska<\/em>. Since 2019, he has been working in crisis zones such as Venezuela, Syria, Afghanistan, Zambia, and Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaros\u0142aw W\u0142odarczyk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaros\u0142aw W\u0142odarczyk is a journalist, commentator, and lecturer. He serves as the Secretary General of the International Association of Press Clubs (IAPC), an umbrella organization representing journalists and media professionals across more than 50 countries. He is also a board member of Press Club Polska and the Council of Polish Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His professional career began prior to 1989 as an editor of the underground press. Following Poland\u2019s transition to democracy, he moved into broadcasting, serving as a journalist, reporter, and news anchor for public television news services. He currently hosts \u201cPress Talks\u201d on the international news channel TVP World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an academic and educator, he lectures at the Faculty of Journalism at SWPS University in Warsaw. He is the author of the national core curriculum for media literacy in Polish schools and teaches the subject at the Saska Szko\u0142a Realna high school. He holds a degree from the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Warsaw and completed \u201cThe Tools of Marketing\u201d program at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Press Club Polska<\/a><\/strong> (PCP) is a leading independent professional organization for journalists based in Warsaw. Established in 2008 as a non-profit foundation, it serves as a vital pillar for media freedom and excellence in Central and Eastern Europe. The organization is a member of the International Association of Press Clubs (IAPC) and the European Federation of Press Clubs. Warsaw has served as the permanent seat of the IAPC General Secretariat since 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press Club Polska is dedicated to defending freedom of speech, upholding journalistic ethics, and providing a platform for professional integration. The Club is also a key proponent of media literacy, organizing workshops, lectures, and training programs designed to navigate the complexities of the modern information landscape. These initiatives aim to strengthen the resilience of both journalists and the public against disinformation while promoting the value of verified, high-quality reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organization is also renowned for its prestigious awards programs. It presents the Dariusz Fikus Award, one of Poland\u2019s most respected honors for \u201cjournalism of the highest caliber,\u201d and co-presents the International Freedom of Speech Award alongside the IAPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an era of heightened geopolitical challenges, Press Club Polska remains a crucial watchdog, fostering international solidarity and ensuring the public\u2019s right to reliable information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This exhibition is presented by Press Club Polska and Photoville Festival, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and the Polish Cultural Institute New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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Berezowski, Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski, Agata Grzybowska, Kuba Kaminski, Tomasz Lazar, Maciek Nabrdalik, J\u0119drzej Nowicki, Magdalena Rigamonti, and Maciej Stanik\\nIn the face of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine\u2014an assault not only on a sovereign nation but on its very culture and language\u2014a dedicated group of Polish photojournalists has stood on the front lines as the primary witnesses for the global community. 'The Eyes of War,' a powerful multi-documentary exhibition, will be featured at the 15th Annual Photoville Festival this May at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The project showcases the work of nine award-winning Polish correspondents who have documented the human cost of the struggle for freedom, ensuring that the truth of this conflict remains visible to the world.\\nThis is not a war in Ukraine, this is a war by Russia against Ukraine, against the people, the society, the nation. Against Ukrainian culture and language. 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Berezowski, Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski, Agata Grzybowska, Kuba Kami\u0144ski, Tomasz Lazar, Maciek Nabrdalik, J\u0119drzej Nowicki, and Maciej Stanik.\\nThe exhibition is curated by Ewa Meissner, with texts by Magdalena Rigamonti. The project is produced by Jaros\u0142aw W\u0142odarczyk and Press Club Polska. The project partner is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, and the organizers of the exhibitions in the individual countries are Polish foreign missions.\\nABOUT THE ARTIST \\nMarek M. Berezowski\\nMarek M. Berezowski, born 1983, is a documentary photographer and photojournalist and graduate of the Photography Department at the National Film School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Warsaw University.\\nHe was a Grand Press Photo prizewinner in 2022, 2023, and 2024; finalist of the Krzysztof Mille contest; prizewinner of the BZ WBK Press Photo prize in 2014 and 2016; Leica Street Photo Contest in 2020; and Newsreporta\u017c (Newsweek Polska Press Contest) in 2008. He is also a grant holder from the Republic of Poland\u2019s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, 2016.\\nSome of his works were shown during the Month of Photography Los Angeles, The Boutographies \u2013 Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier, Photon Festival in Valencia. Major projects include Not a Black Swan: Covid Pandemic (2020-2022), Blast: War in Ukraine (since 2015), and Citymorphosis: Poland, China, Russia, Germany (2013-2017). In 2017 Citymorphosis was published as a photobook.\\nHe participated in the Eddy Adams Workshop 2024 and collaborates with the \u201cReporter\u201d press agency and Magazyn Opinii, Pismo. His photos have been published by The Guardian, The Atlantic, and CNN.\\nWojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski\\nWojciech Grzedzinski, photojournalist, states, \u201cPhotography is a tool for understanding and discovering.\u201d\\nWillingness to document the human condition and convey strong emotions is always in the center of his photography. For years, he reported armed conflicts and their consequences in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Georgia, and Ukraine. Between 2011\u20132015, he was chief of photographers and the official photographer of the President of the Republic of Poland.\\nHis work has been awarded in competitions such as World Press Photo, Visa D\u2019Or, NPPA, POY, Siena Awards, TIFA, Sony World Photography Awards, Grand Press Photo, and many others. He is an author of the Picture of the Year (2009) and Picture of the Decade (2014) in the BZWBK Press Photo competition and Picture of the Year in Grand Press Photo (2022, 2023, 2024).\\nIn his career, he has regularly been a jury member and head of the jury in international and Polish photography competitions. He is a scholar of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and a member of the Association of Polish Artist Photographers.\\nAgata Grzybowska\\nAgata Grzybowska, born 1984, is a photographer, photojournalist, and video creator living and working in Warsaw. She graduated in photography from the Cinematography Department of the National Film School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. She teaches photography at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. In 2017, she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as part of the \u201cYoung Poland\u201d program.\\nIn 2012-2019, she worked as a photojournalist for Gazeta Wyborcza. She currently collaborates with many magazines, media platforms, and non-governmental organizations in Poland and abroad and focuses on her own photography and film projects. She has published in, among others, Wysokie Obcasy, Du\u017cy Format, Vogue Polska, Pismo, Tygodnik Powszechny, Newsweek Polska, Digital Camera Poland, Bloomberg, CNN, and Der Spiegel.\\nHer works have been shown at the Guardhouse of the National Centre for Culture Gallery, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, the Contemporary Museum in Wroc\u0142aw, the European Cultural Centre in Gda\u0144sk, the Institute of Culture in Bucharest, the Institute of Photography in Tokyo, the AG Gallerie in Tehran, and the Delmar Gallery in Sydney, among others.\\nShe published a photobook titled 9 Gates, Returning Not One (2017, Blow Up Press).\\nKuba Kami\u0144ski\\nKuba Kami\u0144ski is a graduate of the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Film School in Poland. He began his career in 2005 as a photographer for the daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita, later working for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) and collaborating with the French daily Le Monde. Since 2020, he has served as a videographer and editor for Euronews and France24, with his work also featured by Al Jazeera English, CNN, and The Guardian.\\nSince 2022, he has worked exclusively for ABC News, covering the wars in Ukraine and Israel. He collaborates with top ABC News correspondents, including David Muir, Martha Raddatz, and Ian Pannell, filming for Good Morning America and World News Tonight with David Muir.\\nHis accolades include a win at the 45th News & Documentary Emmy\u00ae Awards, the National Press Photographers Association\u2019s Best of Photojournalism (USA), the China International Press Photography Contest (CHIPP), and the International Photography Awards (USA). In Poland, he was awarded the Grand Prix in the National Geographic competition and the Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski Award. He was selected for the prestigious World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2011, the 2012 Getty Reportage Emerging Talent, and the inaugural New York Times Portfolio Review.\\nSince 2005, he has documented events across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, including the annexation of Crimea, the wars in Ukraine and Libya, the Gaza Strip, the Papacy in Rome, and the official visits of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump to Poland.\\nTomasz Lazar\\nTomasz Lazar is an independent photographer, artist, and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Szczecin, currently living in Warsaw. Since 2014, he has been a Fujifilm Global Ambassador.\\nHe is the winner of awards including: World Press Photo, Picture of the Year International, CHIPP, Sony World Photography Award, BZ WBK Press Photo, Grand Press Photo, and Lumix Festival for Young Journalism.\\nHis works have been published in many prestigious titles, such as: The New York Times, Newsweek International, Sunday Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and New York Magazine. In 2016, he was chosen as one of 12 participants in the Joop Swart Masterclass.\\nHis projects have been shown at photo festivals in Europe, Asia and America. For his project \u201cTheater of Life,\u201d he won the Grand Prix and Photo Festival in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a.\\nHe is primarily interested in long-term projects focusing on society and the human mind.\\nEwa Meissner\\nEwa Meissner (born in 1971, Warsaw, Poland) is a documentary photographer, curator, and photo editor. In 2000-2005, she studied journalism at the Faculty of Political Science at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. She is a co-founder and documentary photographer of the Napo Images agency, a member of Press Club Poland, and a Fujifilm Ambassador in Poland.\\nShe worked as a curator and co-organizer of photo exhibitions with the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, the Old Gallery of the Association of Polish Art Photographers in Warsaw, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Center of Japanese Art and Technology \u201cManngha\u201d in Crakow, and The Slendzinski Gallery in Bialystok.\\nSince 2010, she has been lecturing on press photography and photo editing at the Institute of Journalism of the University of Warsaw.\\nShe is the editor of the photo books: BEBOK by Karolina Jonderko, ECHO by Maksymilian Rigamonti, The STAKE by Maksymilian Rigamonti, Stigma by Adam Lach, Two Tailed Dog by Michal Adamski, Message by Maciej Jeziorek, Some Things are Quieter Than Others by Jacek Fota, and NYC #02 by Wojtek Wieteska, among others.\\nShe is the author of the Polish Documentary Photography Links (PDPL) profile on Facebook, where she promotes Polish documentary photography.\\nMaciek Nabrdalik\\nMaciek Nabrdalik is an award-winning photojournalist, recognized in both Polish and international photojournalism competitions including World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, and The Best of Photojournalism. Nabrdalik is also the recipient of the Grand Press Photo 2007 Picture of the Year award and the Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski Award from the Polish Press Agency (PAP).\\nHis work has been exhibited and published in magazines around the world. He is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and has been associated with VII Photo since 2008.\\nHe is the author of three books: The Irreversible (2013), which focuses on the survivors of Nazi concentration camps (educational edition reissued in 2014); Homesick (2016), portraying the lives of those affected by the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl; and OUT (published in January 2018 by The New Press in the US), which presents a portrait of the LGBTQ community in Poland.\\nIn the 2016\/2017 academic year, he studied at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow.\\nNabrdalik teaches photojournalism at the L. Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, and is a lecturer at the VII Academy.\\nJ\u0119drzej Nowicki\\nJ\u0119drzej Nowicki is a documentary photographer who focuses on Eastern Europe, specifically Belarus and Ukraine. His work delves into the underlying mechanisms of systemic violence in the region. He is fascinated by humanity\u2019s pursuit of freedom, whether it be on an individual level or within whole societies.\\nHe has covered the revolution in Belarus for The Wall Street Journal, photographed wartime Kyiv for The Washington Post, and portrayed President Volodymyr Zelensky for The New Yorker. He has published photo essays on the war in Ukraine in The Atlantic and contributed to numerous European magazines, including Le Monde, Lib\u00e9ration, Die Zeit, and The Guardian.\\nNowicki has been awarded the Luis Valtuena Award and World Report Award. He is also Ian Parry Scholarship alumnus.\\nMagdalena Rigamonti\\nMagdalena Rigamonti is a journalist at Onet.pl specializing in interviews. For 10 years, she worked for the weekly Newsweek, followed by the weekly Wprost, and from 2016 to 2022 for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.\\nShe is a winner of the Dariusz Fikus Award, Grand Press, and Mediator.\\nShe has authored books including Straty. \u017bo\u0142nierze z Afganistanu \u2013 Casualties: Soldiers from Afghanistan and Jak powstaje cz\u0142owiek \u2013 How a Man is Made (with Maksymilian Rigamonti). In 2019, together with Maksymilian Rigamonti, she won the Photobook of the Year award in the Pictures of the Year (POY) competition for the book Echo, about the Volhynian Massacre. Her latest book is Niewygodni. M\u00f3wi\u0105 prawd\u0119 o wojnie \u2013 The Inconvenient: Telling the Truth About War (2022).\\nShe is a member of the Press Club Polska board.\\nMaciej Stanik\\nMaciej Stanik is an award winning photojournalist. Accolades include the Dariusz Fikus Award, 2024; Grand Press, 2024; Finalist for Poland\u2019s Photojournalist of the Year, 2020; first place in the photo reportage category, Grand Press Photo, 2020; second place in the everyday life category, Grand Press Photo, 2020; and honorable mention at the Viva! Photo Awards, 2020.\\nHe started working as a photojournalist in 2008 in Lodz, Poland, in one of the local newspapers of the Polska Press publishing house. He switched to freelance in early 2016. Currently, he cooperates with the editors of Natemat.pl and Wirtualna Polska. Since 2019, he has been working in crisis zones such as Venezuela, Syria, Afghanistan, Zambia, and Nagorno-Karabakh.\\nJaros\u0142aw W\u0142odarczyk\\nJaros\u0142aw W\u0142odarczyk is a journalist, commentator, and lecturer. He serves as the Secretary General of the International Association of Press Clubs (IAPC), an umbrella organization representing journalists and media professionals across more than 50 countries. He is also a board member of Press Club Polska and the Council of Polish Media.\\nHis professional career began prior to 1989 as an editor of the underground press. Following Poland\u2019s transition to democracy, he moved into broadcasting, serving as a journalist, reporter, and news anchor for public television news services. He currently hosts \u201cPress Talks\u201d on the international news channel TVP World.\\nAs an academic and educator, he lectures at the Faculty of Journalism at SWPS University in Warsaw. He is the author of the national core curriculum for media literacy in Polish schools and teaches the subject at the Saska Szko\u0142a Realna high school. He holds a degree from the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Warsaw and completed \u201cThe Tools of Marketing\u201d program at the University of Toronto.\\nPress Club Polska (PCP) is a leading independent professional organization for journalists based in Warsaw. Established in 2008 as a non-profit foundation, it serves as a vital pillar for media freedom and excellence in Central and Eastern Europe. The organization is a member of the International Association of Press Clubs (IAPC) and the European Federation of Press Clubs. Warsaw has served as the permanent seat of the IAPC General Secretariat since 2013.\\nPress Club Polska is dedicated to defending freedom of speech, upholding journalistic ethics, and providing a platform for professional integration. The Club is also a key proponent of media literacy, organizing workshops, lectures, and training programs designed to navigate the complexities of the modern information landscape. These initiatives aim to strengthen the resilience of both journalists and the public against disinformation while promoting the value of verified, high-quality reporting.\\nThe organization is also renowned for its prestigious awards programs. 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Berezowski, Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski, Agata Grzybowska, Kuba Kaminski, Tomasz Lazar, Maciek Nabrdalik, J\u0119drzej Nowicki, Magdalena Rigamonti, and Maciej Stanik\nIn the face of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine\u2014an assault not only on a sovereign nation but on its very culture and language\u2014a dedicated group of Polish photojournalists has stood on the front lines as the primary witnesses for the global community. 'The Eyes of War,' a powerful multi-documentary exhibition, will be featured at the 15th Annual Photoville Festival this May at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The project showcases the work of nine award-winning Polish correspondents who have documented the human cost of the struggle for freedom, ensuring that the truth of this conflict remains visible to the world.\nThis is not a war in Ukraine, this is a war by Russia against Ukraine, against the people, the society, the nation. Against Ukrainian culture and language. Against a country that has been free, independent, and sovereign since August 1991.\nFor 11 years, Vladimir Putin has been trying to destroy this strong country by annexing Ukraine\u2019s Crimea and Donbas. On February 24, 2022, he invaded Ukraine and intended to conquer it in three days. Four years of war have passed, with the Russian president\u2019s soldiers committing war crimes, murder, torture, and rape. This is documented by Polish photographers, who are the largest group of foreign correspondents in Ukraine. They are the eyes of this war. Their photos are shown in the media around the world.\n\u201cThe Eyes of War\u201d is a long-term and multi-documentary project of the Polish Press Club presenting photos of the war against Ukraine by photographers from Poland, including Marek M. Berezowski, Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski, Agata Grzybowska, Kuba Kami\u0144ski, Tomasz Lazar, Maciek Nabrdalik, J\u0119drzej Nowicki, and Maciej Stanik.\nThe exhibition is curated by Ewa Meissner, with texts by Magdalena Rigamonti. The project is produced by Jaros\u0142aw W\u0142odarczyk and Press Club Polska. The project partner is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, and the organizers of the exhibitions in the individual countries are Polish foreign missions.\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nMarek M. Berezowski\nMarek M. Berezowski, born 1983, is a documentary photographer and photojournalist and graduate of the Photography Department at the National Film School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Warsaw University.\nHe was a Grand Press Photo prizewinner in 2022, 2023, and 2024; finalist of the Krzysztof Mille contest; prizewinner of the BZ WBK Press Photo prize in 2014 and 2016; Leica Street Photo Contest in 2020; and Newsreporta\u017c (Newsweek Polska Press Contest) in 2008. He is also a grant holder from the Republic of Poland\u2019s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, 2016.\nSome of his works were shown during the Month of Photography Los Angeles, The Boutographies \u2013 Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier, Photon Festival in Valencia. Major projects include Not a Black Swan: Covid Pandemic (2020-2022), Blast: War in Ukraine (since 2015), and Citymorphosis: Poland, China, Russia, Germany (2013-2017). In 2017 Citymorphosis was published as a photobook.\nHe participated in the Eddy Adams Workshop 2024 and collaborates with the \u201cReporter\u201d press agency and Magazyn Opinii, Pismo. His photos have been published by The Guardian, The Atlantic, and CNN.\nWojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski\nWojciech Grzedzinski, photojournalist, states, \u201cPhotography is a tool for understanding and discovering.\u201d\nWillingness to document the human condition and convey strong emotions is always in the center of his photography. For years, he reported armed conflicts and their consequences in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Georgia, and Ukraine. Between 2011\u20132015, he was chief of photographers and the official photographer of the President of the Republic of Poland.\nHis work has been awarded in competitions such as World Press Photo, Visa D\u2019Or, NPPA, POY, Siena Awards, TIFA, Sony World Photography Awards, Grand Press Photo, and many others. He is an author of the Picture of the Year (2009) and Picture of the Decade (2014) in the BZWBK Press Photo competition and Picture of the Year in Grand Press Photo (2022, 2023, 2024).\nIn his career, he has regularly been a jury member and head of the jury in international and Polish photography competitions. He is a scholar of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and a member of the Association of Polish Artist Photographers.\nAgata Grzybowska\nAgata Grzybowska, born 1984, is a photographer, photojournalist, and video creator living and working in Warsaw. She graduated in photography from the Cinematography Department of the National Film School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. She teaches photography at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. In 2017, she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as part of the \u201cYoung Poland\u201d program.\nIn 2012-2019, she worked as a photojournalist for Gazeta Wyborcza. She currently collaborates with many magazines, media platforms, and non-governmental organizations in Poland and abroad and focuses on her own photography and film projects. She has published in, among others, Wysokie Obcasy, Du\u017cy Format, Vogue Polska, Pismo, Tygodnik Powszechny, Newsweek Polska, Digital Camera Poland, Bloomberg, CNN, and Der Spiegel.\nHer works have been shown at the Guardhouse of the National Centre for Culture Gallery, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, the Contemporary Museum in Wroc\u0142aw, the European Cultural Centre in Gda\u0144sk, the Institute of Culture in Bucharest, the Institute of Photography in Tokyo, the AG Gallerie in Tehran, and the Delmar Gallery in Sydney, among others.\nShe published a photobook titled 9 Gates, Returning Not One (2017, Blow Up Press).\nKuba Kami\u0144ski\nKuba Kami\u0144ski is a graduate of the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Film School in Poland. He began his career in 2005 as a photographer for the daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita, later working for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) and collaborating with the French daily Le Monde. Since 2020, he has served as a videographer and editor for Euronews and France24, with his work also featured by Al Jazeera English, CNN, and The Guardian.\nSince 2022, he has worked exclusively for ABC News, covering the wars in Ukraine and Israel. He collaborates with top ABC News correspondents, including David Muir, Martha Raddatz, and Ian Pannell, filming for Good Morning America and World News Tonight with David Muir.\nHis accolades include a win at the 45th News & Documentary Emmy\u00ae Awards, the National Press Photographers Association\u2019s Best of Photojournalism (USA), the China International Press Photography Contest (CHIPP), and the International Photography Awards (USA). In Poland, he was awarded the Grand Prix in the National Geographic competition and the Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski Award. He was selected for the prestigious World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2011, the 2012 Getty Reportage Emerging Talent, and the inaugural New York Times Portfolio Review.\nSince 2005, he has documented events across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, including the annexation of Crimea, the wars in Ukraine and Libya, the Gaza Strip, the Papacy in Rome, and the official visits of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump to Poland.\nTomasz Lazar\nTomasz Lazar is an independent photographer, artist, and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Szczecin, currently living in Warsaw. Since 2014, he has been a Fujifilm Global Ambassador.\nHe is the winner of awards including: World Press Photo, Picture of the Year International, CHIPP, Sony World Photography Award, BZ WBK Press Photo, Grand Press Photo, and Lumix Festival for Young Journalism.\nHis works have been published in many prestigious titles, such as: The New York Times, Newsweek International, Sunday Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and New York Magazine. In 2016, he was chosen as one of 12 participants in the Joop Swart Masterclass.\nHis projects have been shown at photo festivals in Europe, Asia and America. For his project \u201cTheater of Life,\u201d he won the Grand Prix and Photo Festival in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a.\nHe is primarily interested in long-term projects focusing on society and the human mind.\nEwa Meissner\nEwa Meissner (born in 1971, Warsaw, Poland) is a documentary photographer, curator, and photo editor. In 2000-2005, she studied journalism at the Faculty of Political Science at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. She is a co-founder and documentary photographer of the Napo Images agency, a member of Press Club Poland, and a Fujifilm Ambassador in Poland.\nShe worked as a curator and co-organizer of photo exhibitions with the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, the Old Gallery of the Association of Polish Art Photographers in Warsaw, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Center of Japanese Art and Technology \u201cManngha\u201d in Crakow, and The Slendzinski Gallery in Bialystok.\nSince 2010, she has been lecturing on press photography and photo editing at the Institute of Journalism of the University of Warsaw.\nShe is the editor of the photo books: BEBOK by Karolina Jonderko, ECHO by Maksymilian Rigamonti, The STAKE by Maksymilian Rigamonti, Stigma by Adam Lach, Two Tailed Dog by Michal Adamski, Message by Maciej Jeziorek, Some Things are Quieter Than Others by Jacek Fota, and NYC #02 by Wojtek Wieteska, among others.\nShe is the author of the Polish Documentary Photography Links (PDPL) profile on Facebook, where she promotes Polish documentary photography.\nMaciek Nabrdalik\nMaciek Nabrdalik is an award-winning photojournalist, recognized in both Polish and international photojournalism competitions including World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, and The Best of Photojournalism. Nabrdalik is also the recipient of the Grand Press Photo 2007 Picture of the Year award and the Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski Award from the Polish Press Agency (PAP).\nHis work has been exhibited and published in magazines around the world. He is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and has been associated with VII Photo since 2008.\nHe is the author of three books: The Irreversible (2013), which focuses on the survivors of Nazi concentration camps (educational edition reissued in 2014); Homesick (2016), portraying the lives of those affected by the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl; and OUT (published in January 2018 by The New Press in the US), which presents a portrait of the LGBTQ community in Poland.\nIn the 2016\/2017 academic year, he studied at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow.\nNabrdalik teaches photojournalism at the L. Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, and is a lecturer at the VII Academy.\nJ\u0119drzej Nowicki\nJ\u0119drzej Nowicki is a documentary photographer who focuses on Eastern Europe, specifically Belarus and Ukraine. His work delves into the underlying mechanisms of systemic violence in the region. He is fascinated by humanity\u2019s pursuit of freedom, whether it be on an individual level or within whole societies.\nHe has covered the revolution in Belarus for The Wall Street Journal, photographed wartime Kyiv for The Washington Post, and portrayed President Volodymyr Zelensky for The New Yorker. He has published photo essays on the war in Ukraine in The Atlantic and contributed to numerous European magazines, including Le Monde, Lib\u00e9ration, Die Zeit, and The Guardian.\nNowicki has been awarded the Luis Valtuena Award and World Report Award. He is also Ian Parry Scholarship alumnus.\nMagdalena Rigamonti\nMagdalena Rigamonti is a journalist at Onet.pl specializing in interviews. For 10 years, she worked for the weekly Newsweek, followed by the weekly Wprost, and from 2016 to 2022 for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.\nShe is a winner of the Dariusz Fikus Award, Grand Press, and Mediator.\nShe has authored books including Straty. \u017bo\u0142nierze z Afganistanu \u2013 Casualties: Soldiers from Afghanistan and Jak powstaje cz\u0142owiek \u2013 How a Man is Made (with Maksymilian Rigamonti). In 2019, together with Maksymilian Rigamonti, she won the Photobook of the Year award in the Pictures of the Year (POY) competition for the book Echo, about the Volhynian Massacre. Her latest book is Niewygodni. M\u00f3wi\u0105 prawd\u0119 o wojnie \u2013 The Inconvenient: Telling the Truth About War (2022).\nShe is a member of the Press Club Polska board.\nMaciej Stanik\nMaciej Stanik is an award winning photojournalist. Accolades include the Dariusz Fikus Award, 2024; Grand Press, 2024; Finalist for Poland\u2019s Photojournalist of the Year, 2020; first place in the photo reportage category, Grand Press Photo, 2020; second place in the everyday life category, Grand Press Photo, 2020; and honorable mention at the Viva! Photo Awards, 2020.\nHe started working as a photojournalist in 2008 in Lodz, Poland, in one of the local newspapers of the Polska Press publishing house. He switched to freelance in early 2016. Currently, he cooperates with the editors of Natemat.pl and Wirtualna Polska. Since 2019, he has been working in crisis zones such as Venezuela, Syria, Afghanistan, Zambia, and Nagorno-Karabakh.\nJaros\u0142aw W\u0142odarczyk\nJaros\u0142aw W\u0142odarczyk is a journalist, commentator, and lecturer. He serves as the Secretary General of the International Association of Press Clubs (IAPC), an umbrella organization representing journalists and media professionals across more than 50 countries. He is also a board member of Press Club Polska and the Council of Polish Media.\nHis professional career began prior to 1989 as an editor of the underground press. Following Poland\u2019s transition to democracy, he moved into broadcasting, serving as a journalist, reporter, and news anchor for public television news services. He currently hosts \u201cPress Talks\u201d on the international news channel TVP World.\nAs an academic and educator, he lectures at the Faculty of Journalism at SWPS University in Warsaw. He is the author of the national core curriculum for media literacy in Polish schools and teaches the subject at the Saska Szko\u0142a Realna high school. He holds a degree from the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Warsaw and completed \u201cThe Tools of Marketing\u201d program at the University of Toronto.\nPress Club Polska (PCP) is a leading independent professional organization for journalists based in Warsaw. Established in 2008 as a non-profit foundation, it serves as a vital pillar for media freedom and excellence in Central and Eastern Europe. The organization is a member of the International Association of Press Clubs (IAPC) and the European Federation of Press Clubs. Warsaw has served as the permanent seat of the IAPC General Secretariat since 2013.\nPress Club Polska is dedicated to defending freedom of speech, upholding journalistic ethics, and providing a platform for professional integration. The Club is also a key proponent of media literacy, organizing workshops, lectures, and training programs designed to navigate the complexities of the modern information landscape. These initiatives aim to strengthen the resilience of both journalists and the public against disinformation while promoting the value of verified, high-quality reporting.\nThe organization is also renowned for its prestigious awards programs. 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