Kasia Kalua Kryńska

Visual Artist, Architect, Photographer. Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology and the European Academy of Photography. PhD in photography. Belongs to the Association of Polish Artists Photographers (ZPAF). Lecturer in photography at the Maria Grzegorzewska University and ZPAF. Since 2012 she has given workshops on analog and alternative photography.

Her photographs have been shown in numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Poland, Ireland, Portugal, Holland, Germany, Spain and US and are held in private collections. Autor of the BLUE MOON GARDEN cyanotype album. Winner of the Black & White Spider Awards, the International Color Award and Photos de Femmes. Her works from series Between Two Moons in the wet plate collodion technique took first place in the Wet Plate Competition Canada and was exhibited in the Art Of Photography Show in San Diego California, FotoArtFestival, Photokina and during the PhotoIreland Festival. Silence to the Heart cyanotype series she won the Grand Prix at the Vintage Photo Festival, Blue Moon Garden cyanotype series was awarded in the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards and presented at the analogNOW! Festival, Foto Art Festival, Month of Photography Bratislava and Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography in Barcelona.

Her photographs have been featured in many publications, including SHOTS Magazine, SOURA Magazine, BLOW Photo Magazine, PRISM Photo Magazine, SEITIES, The Hand Magazine, FotoNostrum Magazine and others.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023 March – LIMPHA project in Gallery Obok ZPAF, Warsaw Poland
2022 February – Blue Moon Garden, Gallery of Photography MCK Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
2021 July – Silence of the Heart, Zpaf Gallery, Cracow
2021 June – Blue Moon Garden, ToTuart Gallery, Centrum Praskie Koneser Warsaw
2019 December – Between Two Moons Wet Plate Collodion series,  Engram Gallery, Katowice Miasto Ogrodów
2012 June – In the Mirror of Memory in Wet Plate Collodion series, PhotoIreland Festival, D-light Studio Dublin, Ireland

AWARDS:

2023 July – Winner in 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Special Anniversary Award fine art photography category in  professional section for LIMPHA project
2022 November – Honourable Mention 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, fine art photography professional section, Barcelona, Spain for analog series „Short Stories of the Long Table”
2022 April – Nominee Fine Art Photography Awards for “Blue Moon Garden” series
2021 May – 3rd place in Julia Margaret Cameron Award competition in Alternative Processes category
2021 March – Finalists exhibition „Togetherness” PORTRAITS HELLERAU PHOTOGRPHY AWARDS 2021, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Germany
2021 March – „A certain kind of blue” Analog Forever Magazine
2020 September – Silence of the Heart cyanotype series got Vintage Grand Prix II on Vintage Photo Festival Bydgoszcz, Poland
2020 July – Finalists exhibition Then & Now 2020, Gallery of Photography National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland
2020 May – Honourable Mention Photo de Femmes seeingWOMAN 2020 Award
2018 October – 5th Barcelona Foto Biennale 2018, Space Nau Bostic, Barcelona Spain
2018 April – Finalists exhibition Julia Margaret Camera Awards, Galeria Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
2018 January – Honorable Mention Women Seen by Women, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Barcelona, Spain
2016 March – Honourable Mention at 9th Annual International Color Awards in the caterer Portrait, Los Angeles, US
2012 June – Exhibition In the Mirror of Memory in Wet Plate Collodion during PhotoIreland Festival, D-light Studio Dublin, Ireland
2011 July – Winner in Blow Photo Competition, publication in Blow Photo Magazine issue 03/2011
2010 April – Exhibition The Promised City – Fortune Seekers, Willy-Brandt-Haus Gallery Berlin, Germany
2010 January – Winner in Still Life category in The International 5th Annual Black & White Spider Awards 

PUBLICATIONS:

2021 December – Interview for Fotonostrum Magazine issue no 22
2021 September – Cover and interview mgFoto Magazyn 3/2021(12)
2021 June – Cyanotype Album BLUE MOON GARDEN
2020 March – ONE SHOT of the Jedna.Fotografia collective
2017 March – SHOTS Magazine The Spring Issue, no. 135 Portraits
2016 March – Album Obsolete Occupations and Grafts in Kashubia
2015 December – ZIN One – photographic-literary project
2015 June – cover and portfolio issue #3 The FIX Analogue Photography Magazine
2014 July – interview Whattaroll Magazine
2013 October – portfolio in Second book SP #2 Sensual Photography
2013 August – article in issue no 16 Pokochaj Fotografie Magazine
2013 June – Cover and interview Debut Issue of SEITIES Identity, Canada
2012 September – Cover for SHOTS Magazine no. 117, Autumn 2012.
2012 January – publication of a series Touch Special Polaroid issue 01/2012 Prizm Photo Magazine, Dublin Ireland
2011 April – Blow Photo Magazine issue 03, Dublin Ireland
2008 September – Cover and portfolio issue no 22 of Soura Magazine / Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
2006 January – magazine Zwierciadlo issue 1 January