Kasia Ślesińska  is a documentary photographer based between Kraków and Warsaw, Poland.


A graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava,  (Czech Republic), Ślesińska holds a master's degree in Cultural Studies and New Media from the Pedagogical University in Kraków and a bachelor's in Polish Philology from the Jagiellonian University.

In 2020, she won the Grand Press Photo award in the Photo Young Picture Story category. In 2022, she placed 2nd in the same competition in the Climate and Responsibility Picture Story category. Member of the Hydroza collective. She won the Canon Student Development Programme 2022.

Her work has been published in journals and magazines such as Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka, Press, Pismo, and NZZ.



katarzynaslesinska21@gmail.com

+48 782 604 354


Awards

2023 Exposure+photo Festival, winner

2023 Vienna International Photo Awards, 2nd prize, Student category

2023 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award, shortlisted

2022 Canon Student Development Programme, grant winner

2022 Grand Press Photo, 2nd prize, Climate and responsibility picture story

2021 Slovak Press Photo, finalist, students and young photographers up to 26 years picture story

2021 No Borders Photo Award, finalist

2021 Grand Press Photo Poland, awarded, photo young picture story

2021 Slovak Press Photo, finalist, students and young photographers up to 26 years picture story 

2020 Grand Press Photo Poland, awarded, photo young picture story

2020 Slovak Press Photo, finalist, students and young photographers up to 26 years picture story 

Exhibitions

2023 Who will be the last to cry?, Pracownia Wschodnia, Warsaw, Poland

2023 Who will be the last to cry?, DOMIE, Poznań, Poland

2023 Fantastic animals, Exposure+photo Festival, KLoé, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

2023 Fantastic animals, World Biennial Of Student Photography,  Gallery of the Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia

2022 Different Worlds, Photon Gallery, finalist, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2022 Hamburg Portfolio Review + Feature in Opening Night Screenings, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, Germany

2022 Grand Press Photo exhibition around Poland

2021 Through the eyes of 12 Polish women photographers, group exhibition, Month of Photography in Bratislava 2021, F7 Gallery

2021 Slovak Press Photo exhibition, Bratislava

2020 Psińco, Coexistence, B&B Gallery Bielsko-Biała, Poland

2020 Grand Press Photo exhibition, around Poland

2020 Slovak Press Photo exhibition, Bratislava, Slovakia


 

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