Joanna Piotrowska


Joanna Piotrowska is a Polish photographer based in London. She works primarily with black and white photography, focusing on themes of history, memory, and repetition.

Education

Piotrowska earned an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2013.

Career

Piotrowska's 2014 series "FROWST" is a series of staged family portraits. The photos were published in a book by the same name, which won the First Book Award in 2014.
After winning one of the three Jerwood/Photoworks Awards in 2015, Piotrowska focused on photographing teenage girls in self-defense poses. She shot the series in Poland, finding subjects through friends and casting agencies that worked with aspiring actresses.
In 2016, she began her "Frantic" series, in which she asked adults to construct homemade forts from their personal belongings. She traveled to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, photographing her subjects in their homes.
In 2018, a selection of Piotrowska's photographs were shown with 16 other contemporary artists in the Museum of Modern Art's Being: New Photography 2018 exhibition.

Exhibitions