Profile
Agnieszka Rayss is a photographer and co-founder of the Sputnik Photos collective. She studied art history at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and at Université Paris IV in France. Sheholds a Ph.D. from the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań.
She is a two-time Picture of the Year award winner and has been shortlisted twice for the Hasselblad Masters Award. She has also received numerous Polish national awards, including Grand Press Photo, BZWBK Press Photo, and Newsreportaż.
Agnieszka teaches photography at the School of Form at SWPS University, at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, and at the Centre National Audiovisuel in Luxembourg. She has previously taught at several photography schools, curated the ShowOff section of the Krakow Photomonth Festival, and served on the juries of multiple photography competitions.
Publications
Publications
- Z zapisków kolekcjonera (From a Collectors Notebook)
Photo album (2019) - Tu się zaczyna koniec miast (This Is Where the End of Cities Begins)
Photo album about the industrial and unsettling aspect of urban organizms (2015) - American Dream
Photo album about the cultural transformation and the triumph of pop culture in Central and Eastern Europe