The Homeless Gallery is a space where any photography enthusiast can show their own work. All you have to do is bring your printed and signed photos (in any format) hang them up, and drop in with friends a day later for the opening. Together we will celebrate the creativity of Wroclaw residents and Festival guests.

The public is invited to assemble the works on their own from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tape, self-adhesive rubber bands, clips for attaching photos and hooks for hanging frames will be waiting for you.

Opening: Saturday, May 31, 1 pm.

The originators of the initiative are Tomek Sikora and Andrzej Świetlik.

We would like to invite you to a portfolio review with the legend of Polish photography, the unruly Tom Sikora. Rules of participation in the review:

• The first 3 people who register here will be invited to a meeting with Tom Sikora:
• Selected individuals are asked to bring up to 15 photos with them, either as prints or electronically to present on their own media.

Enrollment: https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-59/

Szymon Brodziak's exhibition "You are what you see." is a collection of 20 photographic motifs that invite reflection on how what we see affects our identity. The master of black-and-white photography, known for his distinctive style, which through photography shows stills from films that were never made, combines minimalism with an emotional message to create images full of depth and intimacy. Each photograph tells its own story. Brodziak makes us think about how our perception of reality shapes our emotions and perceived identity.

We invite you to an exhibition of photos of artists awarded during last year's edition of "Homeless Gallery." Awarded artists:

• Przemyslaw Gawlowski
• Marta Janiak
• Artur Zdral
• Roland Okon
• Anna Mazur

It doesn't matter if you take a lot of photos or few, they are certainly yours. It sounds trite, but it's worth repeating that each of our photographs is a decision, a declaration, a taking a stand. I'm curious about what you're talking about, what you're looking at, and if you need help with understanding your own work, I invite you to a consultation of your photographic portfolio at SWPS University in Wroclaw. Karol Krukowski

Enrollment: https://university.swps.pl/photo-summit-2025

I am interested in creative, arranged, staged and conceptual photography. If you like to invent photos and create your own artistic concepts or use intuition and imagination in your work, and are wondering what to do with your photographs next, then I invite you to a consultation of your photographic portfolio at the SWPS University in Wroclaw. Agata Grzych

Enrollment: https://university.swps.pl/photo-summit-2025

On a daily basis I use photography to create imaginary worlds, sometimes they are advertising worlds, sometimes my own. There is always something in common in them. If you like to combine photography with fashion, architecture or performance, I invite you to consult your photographic portfolio at SWPS University. Jacek Kolodziejski

Enrollment: https://university.swps.pl/photo-summit-2025

In my creative work, I am confronted with both precise photo planning and arranging spontaneous do-object situations. If you are interested in the balance between plan and chance or want to strengthen the conceptual approach in your work, I invite you to review my portfolio at SWPS University. Kamil Kotarba

Enrollment: https://university.swps.pl/photo-summit-2025

Join us for a conversation about photography, where together we will look at the role of concept and creative process in the realization of a photo shoot. We will talk about how the idea shapes the final result, where coincidence ends and conscious creation begins. We will talk about the experience of our own work, touching on the balance between artistic vision and the demands of the market and the art world.

Guest: Kamil Kotarba, conducting: Jacek Kolodziejski

Enrollment: https://university.swps.pl/photo-summit-2025

The workshop will introduce the author's techniques of lighting, scene styling and ways to photograph product in an arrangement. The aesthetics of image handling will be based on "cinematic" styles and dark sci-fi atmosphere in commercial terms.

You can see examples of implementations in this style here: https://protechteus.com/psf-x-photosummit-day-2025

Enrollment: https://university.swps.pl/photo-summit-2025

We invite you to a lecture: "Sports Photography. My path: from athlete to sports photojournalist." 

Enrollment: https://university.swps.pl/photo-summit-2025

Tomasz Lazar will take us on a journey through his photographic projects. He will touch on the topic of photographic awareness, why it is important and what it gives us. How our creative process changes when we become more conscious, and how to help our development. 

Enrollment: https://university.swps.pl/photo-summit-2025

The idea of the series appeared as a result of observation, visual interpretation, experiment, discovery.
"Discovery" in "OBJECTS OF LOWER RANGE REALITY" (T. Kantor) of images almost identical to Wojciech Fangor's "wheels" and - in parallel - "discovery" in these "wheels" of objects of mediocre meaning and licentious origin.
Subjecting banal, degraded waste to optical recycling, resulted in photographic images referring us to Leonardo da Vinci's sfumato technique, uncontoured painting, op art and... Cosmos.

Enrollment: https://university.swps.pl/photo-summit-2025

Art Cantor is a partner of the event.

The exhibition presents photographic objects created from fragments of photographs from the family archive of Kazimiera and Karol Danielewicz and darkroom "waste" - scraps of light-sensitive paper. Participants of the workshop, like archaeologists, reconstructed destroyed images and gave them new meanings, combining reality with conjecture. Curators: Agata Grzych, Michal Jakubowicz

Authors: Henryk Bardorz, Monika Baszczyńska, Aleksander Borowski, Patrycja Ciepielewska, Katarzyna Derwinis, Magdalena Fedorczuk, Adam Haladus, Marek Horowski, Zuzanna Kownacka, Kacper Maksymiuk, Szymon Mazurek, Patryk Mazurkiewicz, Marta Miniewicz, Izabela Retka, Aleksandra Rzeźnik, Andrzej Szachniewicz, Laura Tobiasz, Natalia Wrzesińska.

Portfolio review with Dr. Michal Pietrzak,a graduate of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, the Higher School of Photography in Jelenia Gora and the Faculty of Architecture at the Wroclaw University of Technology. Winner of the Prof. Witold Skulicz Award of the International Triennial of Graphic Arts in Cracow and the Lower Silesia Province Scholarship. Distinguished in the competition Nagroda Roku ZPAP Wrocław. Awarded with the Badge of Honor "Meritorious for the Lower Silesian Voivodeship". President of the Lower Silesia District of the Association of Polish Artists Photographers and member of the Association of Polish Artists.

Number of participants - 5 people,the form of works presented at the consultation - prints or prints.

Enrollment: https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-60/

"My main area of creative interest is the nature of reality, both in subjective and objective aspects. With the help of photography I try to describe their mutual influence, the relationship between the internal and external world.

In terms of exchanges with other artists, I'm interested in the individual perspective on the subject taken, personal reflection and the resulting conclusions and choice of means of expression."

Number of participants - 5 people, the form of works presented at the consultation - prints or prints.

Enrollment: https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-61/

Are you at the stage of building a portfolio and don't know where to start? Do you have one ready, but don't know if it meets industry standards? Join us for a portfolio review, where art meets substantive analysis and photography takes on a new dimension. Attending the event will allow you to understand the strengths of your work and areas for improvement.

Come to the meeting with a finished set of photos in the form of prints or files on external media (such as a flash drive or memory card) or your laptop/tablet.

Number of participants - 5 people

Enrollment: https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-62/

Through photography we express ourselves.
I am curious about who you are ... as a photographer/woman, what you strive for in your work, what and how you tell stories. If you are looking for answers to these questions, direction for your work, I invite you to consult your photographic portfolio.

The form of the presented works - prints or prints.

Number of participants - 5 people

Enrollment: https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-63/

The exhibition, like the title itself, refers to the ambiguity with which alternative worlds can be constructed. As conceptual artist John Baldessari used to say, "As soon as you put two things together, you get a new story." The same images, depending on the relationship they form with other photos, can have different meanings. They are mostly photographs of banal scenes, showing beauty and ugliness in one, often containing understatements and elements of surprise or absurdity. The exhibition will include several smaller projects such as: Safari, Dioramas. These projects are characterized by the interpretation of the anthroposphere as a game, a conscious pastiche of accepted convention,
paradoxical associations, free composition of forms and meanings, quotation, while the description itself serves to conduct, its own game (...).

Andrzej Saj / Transformations [ fragment ]
The Przemiany project is based on the principle of the collision of a frame saturated with visual details with emptiness, presented as a bare wall of a selected interior, found in palace-residential buildings in Morawa, Gorzanów and Sokołowsko (...). Michał Pietrzak is a conscious artist and knows what staffage he needs to convey his creative intentions. Being an architect by education, he has the ability to perceive residential structures, shapes of buildings and their interiors. This influences his vision of the world, that is, the ability to select and limit (frame) the view, and thus choose such a part of reality that is adequate to his authorial invention in imaging.

You've been taking pictures for a while in total, and although the camera techniques have no secrets for you, you feel that you don't know how to put stories together from your photos. Or maybe all your photos are fantastic and the folder with them has stopped closing? Then this meeting is for you. In an intimate group we will discuss the selection of photos, building a portfolio or displaying your photographs.

Group of 10 people. Please bring a maximum of 80 photos (portfolio or a maximum of two stories). Photos named in a way that allows identification of the participant and the order of display, in 2000px longer side, 72 dpi format, should be sent by 29/05 to the following email address: kultura@concordiadesign.pl

Enrollment: https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-65/

Photography workshop: how to start photographing sports? Basics of sports photography with a hands-on workshop. Portfolio review for those willing to participate.  

Group: 20 people

Enrollment: https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-66/

The theme and purpose of the photo workshop will be an introduction to building a photojournalism. Participants will be guided through the steps of preparing to create a photojournalism, what to pay attention to in it. The author will share his experience and also discuss his approach to photo projects based on his works. 

Group: 20 people

Enrollment: https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-67/

Lidia Popiel is a photographer and lecturer at the photography department of the Warsaw Film School. She has been involved in photography for more than thirty years. She has collaborated with many popular magazines.

Important - workshop participants are asked to bring their own SD cards.

Group: 15 people

Enrollment: https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-68/

During the workshop you will have a unique chance to go through the entire creative process with Szymon Brodziak and learn the secrets of a photographer's work under the guidance of a master.

During the workshop you will learn:

Effective communication with the model on set.

Creating creative synergy with the team on set.

Work in an unconventional space

You will see how Szymon Brodziak works on a professional photo shoot. A professional team will be involved: a model, a stylist and a make-up artist.

Number of people: 15

For more information and to sign up: https://app.evenea.pl/event/879974-69/

"There is magic in fashion," says Lidia Popiel, "and because fashion photography is a mixture of so many things: people, designs, fabrics, lines, proportions, landscapes and locations, it's a great opportunity to express yourself and create new worlds. It is filled with the beauty of freedom. Fashion photos can be more than just portraits. "They can tell stories," - she continues, "through the use of light, details and composition. We use many methods to show the designers' concepts, but in the end, the photo represents the person, who must convey something to the viewer through it."

When asked about her favorite equipment, she replies: "I love shooting with the Alpha 7 IV camera. The image quality allows me to capture the dynamism of the scene very well. But what I appreciate most is the viewfinder - when I use it, I feel more connected to the camera.

Lidia Popiel is a photographer and lecturer at the photography department of the Warsaw Film School. She has been involved in photography for more than thirty years. She has collaborated with many popular magazines.

Tomasz Lazar - photographer, artist and lecturer (Ph.D.) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Szczecin. Since 2014, Global Ambassador of Fujifilm. Winner of awards including: World Press Photo, Picture of the Year International, CHIPP, Sony World Photography Award, BZ WBK Press Photo, Grand Press Photo and Lumix Festival for Young Journalism. His work has been published in prestigious titles including: New York Times, Newsweek International, Sunday Times Magazine, New Yorker, Washington Post and New York Magazine. In 2016, he was selected as one of 12 participants in the JoopSwart Masterclass.

Tomasz Lazar will take us on a journey through his photographic projects. He will touch on the topic of photographic awareness why it is important and what it gives us. How our creative process changes when we become more conscious, and how to help our development. 

Aleksandra Szmigiel, born 1988, lives in Warsaw, a freelance photographer, working with Reuters. She has worked on major sporting events such as the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022, Paris 2024), the World Athletics Championships, the European Athletics Championships, the World Ski Championships and others. She is a Sony brand ambassador and an award-winning photographer in international and national photo competitions, among others. POY, Grand Press Photo, World Sports Photography Awards. Her photographs have been published in major titles such as The Washington Post, TIME, The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Liberation, Vouge. She is the author of personal projects about athletes and solo and group exhibitions.

Photojournalist. He is passionate about subjects related to man and his emotions. He has documented armed conflict zones many times. Winner of World Press Photo, POY, Sipa awards, Visa D'Or, NPPA, Sony World Photography Awards, Grand Press Photo and other photo contests. Author of Photo of the Year 2009 and Photo of the Decade (2014) in the BZWBK Press Photo competition, as well as Grand Press Photo Photo of the Year (2022, 2023, 2024). Head of the team of photographers at the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland and official photographer of the President of the Republic of Poland from 2011 to 2015. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for 2014 and 2018. Member of the ZPAF.

"The Course of Circumstances" is thestory of more than twenty-five years with the camera: by the eye, in the bag, on the shoulder, at home, traveling, working, war....

Photographer. Winner of Grand Press Photo 2017 (1st prize in the category Everyday Life - Photojournalism.

Her work has been published in National Geographic Poland, Newsweek, The Times Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza, Wysokie Obcasy and Gala, as well as in the prestigious PRESS publication "15 Years of Grand Press Photo." She has taught photography at the Faculty of Graphics and the Institute of Design at SWPS University in Wroclaw. She has pursued photographic subjects among the Kuna Yala Indians living on the islands of the San Blas archipelago in the Caribbean Sea; explored traditions in Central American culture (Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador); reached out to the cults of Thailand; photographed the "Hell of Women" in El Salvador; and in Iceland and Poland explored the phenomenon of Westerners' longing for intense contact with raw nature. www.annagondek.com

Magda Pasierska - vocalist, music producer, cultural expert, singing teacher and activist. She has played hundreds of concerts in Poland and Europe, performing in front of Bobby McFerrin, Leszek Możdżer and the Beastie Boys, among others. Known for her performances in the band Me Myself and I, she also co-founded the production trio Tea and collaborated with groups such as Bipolar Bears and Mr. Transponder, among others. Since 2018, she has been developing her solo career under the alias Map. In 2017, she released a mini-album titled "EP1," followed by her debut longplay, "I Call You," in 2021.