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Ewa Meissner

Ewa Meissner was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1971. In 2000-2005, she studied journalism at the Faculty of Political Science at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. Co-founder of the Napo Images agency. She worked as a curator and co-organizer of photo exhibitions with the Center for Contemporary Art, the Old Gallery of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Center of Japanese Art and Technology "Manngha"in Krakow...
Ewa Meissner was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1971. In 2000-2005, she studied journalism at the Faculty of Political Science at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. Co-founder of the Napo Images agency. She worked as a curator and co-organizer of photo exhibitions with the Center for Contemporary Art, the Old Gallery of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Center of Japanese Art and Technology "Manngha"in Krakow.
Since 2010, she has been lecturing press photography, the history of fashion photography and the history of Japanese photography at the Institute of Journalism of the University of Warsaw, Photo editor of photo books, "Echo" by Maksymilian Rigamonti, "Some Things are Quieter Than Others" by Jacek Fota, "Message" by Maciej Jeziorek, "Two tailed dog" by Michał Adamski, "Stigma" by Adam Lach, among others. Author of the blog Polish Documentary Photography Links where she promotes Polish documentary photography. Her photography works, oscillating between sociological - documentary photography and street photography, were exhibited in Poland, France, the Czech Republic, England
and the United States.
Since January 2021 she is a Fujifilm ambassador.

Stories

The project "Warsaw 2008-2018" consists of photographs documenting the city's everyday life in the span time of ten years. Two decades have passed since the fall of Berlin Wall and Poland's capital and its life style have transformed. It was a slow process. 

Warsaw 2008 - 2018 Story: Ewa Meissner

Koszelowka is a typical summer resort village, located among high terminal moraines overgrown with pine forests on the south-eastern bank of Zdworskie Lake, the biggest lake in the Mazovia Province of Poland. (...)

LITORAL Story : Ewa Meissner: Ewa Meissner

(2010 - on going)

At the Baltic Sea Story: Ewa Meissner

On April 10, 2010, around 8:40 am, a plane TU 154 crashed close to the town of Smolensk in Russia. Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria were killed, along with Poland's chiefs of the army and the navy, central bank governor, MPs and leading historians, who were among 96 passengers and plane...

National Mourning. Warsaw Story: Ewa Meissner

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

2019 - "Warsaw 2008 - 2018", Pix.house Gallery, Poznan, Poland.

Group exhibitions:


2019 - "Warsaw 2008 - 2018", Rybnik Photo Festival , Rybnik, Poland,
2018 - "Napo Images Exhibition", Ostroleka Gallery, Ostroleka, Poland,
2017 - "Poles Apart: Poland's Culture Wars", The Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery , Center for European Studies, Harvard University, USA,
2011 - "Inside - Outside", Some aspects of contemporary Polish photography, PRAGUE BIENNALE PHOTO 2, Czech Republic,
2011 - "Mapping the Flaneur", Newcastle Arts Centre, UK,
2011 - "Mapping the Flaneur", FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK,
2010 - "East Side Story", Polka Gallerie, HSBC, Paris, France.

Photo Editor

Books:

2019 - "Echo" - Magdalena i Maksymilian Rigamonti
2019 - "Message" - Maciej Jeziorek
2019 - "Two Tailed Dog" - Michał Adamski
2014 - "Some Things Are Quieter Than Others" - Jacek Fota
2014 - "Stigma" - Adam Lach
2003 - "N.Y.C.#02" - Wojciech Wieteska