Recent publications

Here are some publication from my recent assignments. There are some more stories that I have shot on assignment but they wait for publication.
For the second time during this year I have been published in TIME magazine:


The same week, polish edition of Newsweek published a portrait of a polish writer, Wojtek Kuczok. I have shot this image a couple of years ago, (BTW he is a good friend of mine from primary school)




Former polish prime minister, present candidate for Euro Parliament President





Monster Truck show, I had lots of fun shooting this stupid event with Michal Luczak





USA magazine UTNE printed a story from Tirana, Albania about Enver Hoxa pyramide sliding with one of my pictures, below on-line version of this story

mobile phones

Today I have lost my mobile phone, with absolutely all my contacts in it. When it comes to my photo archive backup- I am maniac, but I have forgotten to backup my telephone contacts. fuck.
the image was taken in Kosovo , Prekaz the village where Adem Jashari Albanian guerilla fighter lived and died.

Transdniester

Transdniester - a narrow strip of land sandwiched between Ukraine and Moldova that broke away from the Soviet Union just before USSR collapsed, officialy it is part of Moldova but after bloody civil war in 1990 it proclaimed independence. Its self proclaimed independence is not recognized by any country in the world. Presently Transdniester is a living museum of life in USSR. It is also well known as a hotbed for international organized crime.


The idea was that it is going to be like this:

but in reality it is like this:



Russian peacekeepers

border on the Dniester river between Transdniester and Moldova

More images from Transdniester

If you like photography please check out , very interesting blog of Tokyo based photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert

Recession time shopping

Dusseldorf, Germany

Karate Kid

I was in Casamance - a region after long low-level conflict that was fuelled by dispute over regions independence from Senegal when I spotted this karate gym, the light was great, I introduced myself and after a short chat I was allowed to shoot some photographs




The master-trainer himself


Then I left and after a long walk I reached my hotel where I saw this man- he was obviously coming back from the same gym, but I haven't seen him there before. I have shoot quickly without asking a series of pictures and he bowed - this was karate style bow of course. Then I showed him the pictures from the gym. We laughed - he must have went out of the gym just couple of seconds before I entered it.
This is my favourite photo from senegal:

more images from Senegal Casamance region

busy

I have been very busy during last week. 2 assignments for AFP, a job for a private costumer, and a nice story shot for the times educational supplement , which should appear as a couple of pages reportage. I'll post some images from the story after they are published.

Gorre Island, Senegal

Layene Islamic Brotherhood of the Lebou people in Yoff, Senegal

Layene Islamic Brotherhood festival a town of Yoff, next to Dakar, Senegal. The Layene are a politically autonomous religious community of the Lebou tribe. The founder of Layene muslim brotherhood was SEYDINA LIMAMOULAHI. more images here:
Islamic brotherhood in Yoff,Senegal

Bosnia and Croatia after ...

Croatia, somewhere on the border with Bosnia


Croatia, housing blocks near the border with Bosnia, the woman was chopping wood for winter. The housing blocks were surrounded by minefields with warning signs all over the place. All the trees in the neighbourhood were cut down.


Policeman playing in a small casino, Mostar, Bosnia


Closed down "MAKDonalds" bar next to rebuilt mosque, Bosnia on the border with Croatia.